The Return of Colonel Shepard's Regiment shows that, of that Regiment, Sergeants James Scott and Charles Adams and Private Thaddeus Kemp, all of them of Captain Bolster's Company, were killed. (A Return of the Killed, Taken, and Missing of th£ Third Regiment, commanded by Colonel Shepard, etc., "North-Castle, November 19, 1776.")

The Return of Colonel Baldwin's Regiment shows that that Regiment sustained no loss, on the day under consideration. {Return of the Killed, Wounded, Prisoners, and Missing in the Brigade commanded by Gurdon Saltonstall, Esq., " North-Castle. November 19, 1776.")

The Return of Colonel Glover's Regiment shows that that Regiment, commanded by Captain Curtis, on the occasion now under consideration, sustained no loss-- it was not under the enemy's fire. (A Return of the OJficei-8 trud Privates Killed, Missing, and Taken, in the Fourteenth Regiment, etc., " Camp, North Castle, November 19, 1776.")

' Oolonel Glover's tetter, "Mile Square, October 22, 1776."

manding the First Battalion of Light Infantry, and Captain Evelyn, of the Fourth Regiment of Foot, and twenty men, wounded ; 6 those of the Chasseurs, on whom, in such mixed detachments as that under notice, the severest losses usually fell, have not been stated ; but they were said to have been, and they probably were, very severe. 7

It does not appear to have been pretended that General Lee gave any Order or any support to Colonel Glover, notwithstanding the latter despatched his Major of Brigade to the General, with information of the approach of the enemy to Pell's-neck, before he ordered his command to move down the Neck, to oppose the enemy's progress ; 8 and, in truth, nothing whatever has been recorded of the doings of General Lee, on that eventful eighteenth of October. It is said, on the other hand, that, early in the morning of that day, the Officer commanding the Regiment which guarded the pass to Throgg's-neck, by way of the causeway and bridge, from the Village of Westchester, suspected the enemy was preparing to move from the Neck, and sent an express to General Heath, with the information ; that the latter ordered one of his Aide's to gallop to Valentine's, near whose house General George Clinton and his Brigade were posted, with Orders that the Brigade should be formed, " in- " stantly ; " that General Heath reached Valentine's " by the time the Brigade was formed," and ordered the Officer in command " to march with the utmost expe- " dition, to the head of the causeway, to reinforce " the troops, there, himself moving on with them ; " that, while on the march, another express met General Heath, informing him that the entire' force of the enemy was in motion, and seemed to be moving towards the ford, at the head of the creek which separated Throgg's-neck from the mainland ; that the