I., No. 27, Portsmouth, Tuesday, November 26, 1776, and by General Force, in the American Archives, V., ii., 1188, 1189, the reader is already acquainted ; an Extract of a letter from Mount Washington, dated October 23, 1776, written by an eye-witness of the engagement, and published iu The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1769, Philadelphia, "Wednesday, October 30, 1776, confirmed the statement that the loss was largely sustained by the German troops ; and informed that deserters stated the entire loss, British and German, to have amounted to "more " than eight hundred men, killed and wounded ; " a brief reference was made to the skirmish, in an Extract of a letter from East Chester, dated October 23, published in Tlie FreemarCs Journal or New-Hampshire Gazette, Vol. I , No. 24, Portsmouth, Tuesday, November 5, 1776 ; an excellent and very full description, evidently written by one who participated in the fight, appeared in an Extract of a letter from Camp at Mile Square in East Chester, dated 23 October, 1776, which was printed in The Freeman's

♦Thus printed.

It is said, with some degree of probability, that, on the morning of the twentieth of October, the second day after the enemy occupied Pell's-neck, General Washington employed Colonel Rufus Putnam, an Officer and an., Engineer in whom much confidence

Journal or New-Hampshire Gazette, Vol. I., No. 25, Portsmouth, Tuesday, November 12, 1776, whence it was re-printed by Frank Moore, in his Diary of the American Revolution, i., 326, 327 ; General Howe* 8 despatch to Lord George Germame, dated "New-York, 30 November, 1776, "contained the official report of the skirmish ; Captain Hall, in his History of the Civil War in America, (i., 205,) made mention of it, stating, also, that the Light Infantry lost "about thirty killed and wounded," without making the slightest allusion to either the Grenadiers or the German troops ; Stedman, in his History of the American War, (i., 211, 212,) described the skirmish, very briefly, stating "thirty-two were killed and wounded on "the side of the English," without alluding to that of any of the other troops ; Judge Jones, in his History of New York during the Revolutionary War, (i., 122,) made only a general reference to it, among a number of skirmishes in Westchester-connty, and his Editor, de Lancey, made no mention of it ; Gordon, in hiB History of the American Revolution, (ii., -.39,) gave a singularly inaccurate description, making General Lee the commander, in person, without naming Colonel Glover, in any way ; Genera I Heath, in his Memoirs, (72, 73.) mentioned it with some particularity, but without alluding to Colonel Glover, in connection with it; Judge Marshall, in his Life of George Washington, (ii., 499,) briefly alluded to it ; Ramsay, in his History of the American Revolution, (Edit.