2 Memoirs of General Heath, 71.

* General Orders, '■ Head-quarters, Harlem Heights, October 17, "1776."

4 Memoirs of General Heath, 74.

5 The action which occurred on the eighteenth of October, the day after that of which we write, was maintained by the Regiments commanded, respectively, by Colonels Shepard, Read, Baldwin, and Glover, all of them belonging to the Brigade commanded by Cnluuel Gtovor, in the absence uf General James Clinton.-- ( Vide payee 241-246, post.)

setts Militia, from the command of Major-general Lincoln, were " sent up the river," [the Hudson-river,] " to watch the motions of the ships," [the Phoenix, the Eoebuck, and the Tartar, then lying off Tarrytown,] " and to oppose any landing of men, that they may attempt ;" 6 while the Head-quarters of that small Division and, probably, the two remaining Regiments, were posted on Valentine's-hill, 7 in the Town of Yonkers, one of those ridges which formed, and which still form, a distinguishing feature in the topography of Westchester-county ; and, at the time of which we write, the most southerly of those high grounds, extending northerly as far as the White Plains, which were subsequently occupied by detachments of the American Army, while the main body of that Army was laboriously and painfully occupied in its famous retreat, with its baggage and stores, from the Heights of Harlem to the high grounds at the last mentioned-place ; B and General Heath's Division was posted in a line extending from Fort Independence to Valentine's-hill. 9 It is said, also, that a line of entrenched encampments was also formed, along the high grounds, on the western side of the Bronx-river, from Valentine's-hill, on the South, to Chatterton's-hill, opposite the White Plains, on the North ; 10 but by which of the Regiments they were