" Head-quarters, Harlem Heights, October 21, 1776. "(Parole, Hkath.) (Countersign, Sullivan.)

"The hurried situation of the General, for the two last days, having " prevented him from paying that attention to Colonel Glover and the " Officers and soldiers who were with him, in the skirmish, on Friday "last, that their merit and good behaviour deserved, he flatters himself "that his thanks, though delayed, will, nevertheless, be acceptable to " them, as they are offered with great sincerity and cordiality. At the "same time, he hopes that every other part of the Army will do their "duty with equal duty* and zeal, whenever called upon; and that " neither dangers, difficulties, nor hardships will discourage soldiers en "gaged in the cause uf Liberty, and contending for all that freemen "hold dear and valuable."

1 David How, in his homely Diary, under that date, [October 18,] noticed the engagement, in these words : " 18. The Regulars Landed above "Frogg's point on the main Land. Our people fought Them Killed a "great many Both sides we have not The Particulars as yet." Lieutenant-colonel Tench Tilghman to William Duer, "Head-quarters, Kino's " Bridge, October 20, 1776," made a passing and complimentary allusion to the affair ; General Washington, through his Secretary, to ike Continental Congress, "King's Bridge, October 20, 1776, half-after one o'clock, "P.M.," gave a brief and complimentary account of the skirmish ; an Extract of a letter from Fort Lee, dated " October 20, 1776," and published in The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1768, Philadelphia, Wednesday, October 23, 1776, and by General Force, in his American Archives, V., ii., 1130, gave a very good and generally correct account of it ; another Extract of a letter from Fort Lee, dated " October 20," and published in the same newspaper, on the following Wednesday, also gave a good, brief description ; an Extract of a letter from an Officer, dated " Near New "Rochellk (in the vicinity of New-York) October 20, 1776," made a brief and exaggerated allusion to it ; an Editorial "article, in a Newport newspaper of the twenty-first of October, copied by The Freeman's Journal tr New-Hampshire Gazette, Vol.