However, I trust that there "are many who will act like men, and show themselves worthy of the "blessings of freedom." (Letter to tke Congress, "Head-quarters, at " Comnel Morris's house, 16 September, 1776.") On the day after the date of the Returns of the Army which are referred to in the text, the General wrote to his brother, " the dependence which the Congress have "placed upon the Militia has already greatly injured and, I fear, will " totally ruin our cause. Being subject to no control, themselves, they "introduce disorder among the troops whom we have attempted to discipline ; while the change in their living brings on sickness; and this "causes an impatience to get home, which spreads, universally, and in- "troduces abominable desertions. In short, it is not in the power of " words to describe the task I havo to perform. Fifty thousand pounds " would not induce me again to undergo what I have done." (General Washington to John Augustine Washington, "Heights of Haerlem, 22 "September, 1776.")

WESTCHESTEK COUNTY.

present and fit for duty, including Colonel Knox's Regiment of Artillery, was reduced to fifteen thousand, one hundred, and four; 1 and on the fifth of October, the same rank and file, present and fit for duty, including the Artillery, numbered only fourteen thousand, four hundred, and eighty-six, exclusive of seven skeleton Regiments of Connecticut and Rhode Island, forming two nominal Brigades, each with its full complements of Officers and Staff, in which there were nominally twelve hundred and seventy-five men, present and fit for duty. There was, also, a body of Massachusetts Militia, " computed at four thousand, " so scattered and ignorant of the forms of Returns "that none can be got;" and a Regiment of New Hampshire Militia was posted at the White Plains and another at the Fishkills, " under the like circum- " stances." 2