Kelby of the New York Historical Society, informs us that such a file is not known to him, anywhere.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

which it should have received, at an earlier day, and of which it was in great need. 1

The enemy's Squadron got under way, again, during the evening, and sailed up the river, as far as Tarrytown ; where it anchored, and remained during the entire period which was occupied by those stirring and momentous events of which their own movement, up the Hudson-river, was the earlier portion. 2

When the information of that movement of the enemy's ships reached the Committee of Safety, at Fishkill, it was, evidently, very much alarmed ; but, with that promptitude which the emergency demanded, it immediately ordered three hundred of the Militia of Ulster-county to be sent down, without any delay, to Peekskill, " well armed and accoutred, "and with three days' provisions;" that a sufficient number of the Militia of Orange-county, below the mountains -- now Rockland-county -- should be called out for the due protection of that portion of the western bank of the river, and one hundred from the Militia of the same County, above the mountains, should be called out and sent to Peekskill, with three days' provisions; that all the Rangers which had been enlisted for the protection of the frontiers of Ulstercounty should be marched to Fishkill, evidently for the purpose of holding the more violent of the disaffected, in Duchess-county, in check ; and it also sent expresses to General Schuyler, commanding the Northern Army, and to General George Clinton, at Kingsbridge, declaring its helplessness and begging " the most speedy succour." It also wrote a letter to General Washington, in which the condition of the country was thus described ; "Nothing can be more " alarming than the present situation of our State.