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Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution

Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886. 302 words

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. I., No. 24., Portsmouth, Tuesday, November 5, 1776, and by General Force, in the American Archives, V., ii., 1174, contained a statement of the skirmish, giving the command to General Lee and making other serious errore ; some Information relatinff to the enemy, communicated to the New- York Convention, evidently by General George Clinton, on the twenty-first of October, 1776, gave a brief description ; an allusion which was made to it, with the report of a deserter as to the enemy's Iosb, may be seen in an Extract of a letter from Fort Lee, dated "October 22," and published in The Philadelphia Evening Post, Vol.