But, because the entire military force, except the garrison of Fort Washington, had been moved into Westchester-county as early as noon, on the twentieth - because General Greene had found Head- quarters, "near King's Bridge " on the evening of the nineteenth, (Letter to the Continental Congress, "Camp at Tort Lee, (lately Fort Constitution,) October 20, 1776;") because Lieutenant-colonel Tench Tilghman, one of the General's Aids had addressed a letter to William Duer, dated " Head-quarters, King's " Bridge, October 20, 1776 ; " because Colonel Harrison, the General's Secretary, had addressed a letter to the President of the Continental Congress, dated " King's Bridge, October 20, 1776, half-after one o'clock, "P.M.;" and because General Washington, himself, had addressed a letter to Colonel Joseph Trumbull, Commissary-general of Provisions, dated, " Head-quarters, King's Bridge, October 20, 1776," we prefer to consider the Orderly Book -- which was in evident disorder, from the eighteenth until the twenty-third (only a single entry appearing in it, during that long interval)-- and, necessarily, Doctor Sparks, to have been in error ; and that Head quarters were really at or very near to Kingsbridge, as early as the afternoon of the nineteenth.

1 Sauthier's Plan of the Operations of the King's Army.

s General Howe to Lord George Germaine, " New-York, 30 November, "1776;" [HaU's'l History of the Civil War m America, i., 205; Stedman's History of the American War, i., 212 ; Gordon's History of the American Revolution, ii., 339 ; Sauthier's Plan of the Operations of the King's Army ; Plan of the Country from Frog's Point to Croton River ; etc.