Bushnell, for blowing up the British Fleet. 3 Two new shipSj purchased for the further obstruction of the channel of the river, were driven ashore, near Yonkers -- one of them was afterwards recovered, however, by a party of men whom General Clinton sent from Kingsbridge, for that purpose ;* and two galleys, which had been stationed near the obstructions, were also driven ashore, near Dobbs's-ferry, and captured by the enemy. 5 While the ships were at anchor, off

1303, New- York, Monday, October 14, 1776 ; The Freeman's Journal and New-Hampshire Gazette, Volume 1, Number 27, Portsmouth, Tuesday, November 26, 1776 ; The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1767, Philadelphia, Wednesday, October 16, 1776; Sauthier's Plan of tits Operations of the King's Army under the command of General S* William Howe, K. B., in New York and East New Jersey, Ed. London ; 1777 -- opposite-- ; Memoirs of General Heath, 68 ; etc,

1 General George Clinton to the Convention, "Kino's Bridge, 10 Oc- "tober, 1776."

2 Vide page 216, ante.

3 The late Charles J. Bushnell, of New York, well known among numismatists and antiquaries, was of the same family as the Mr. Bushnell referred to, iu the text ; and he gathered, with great labor and much cost, everything which was known to exist, concerning that early inventor. The only description of the machine for destroying vessels at anchor, invented by him and destroyed by the enemy whom it was intended to annoy, as far as we have knowledge, may be seen in the Memoirs of General Heath, 69.