4 Now forming a portion of* what is known as " The Underhill " Farm."
5 This description of the ground occupied by the Division commanded by General Heath, has been taken, largely in his own words, from bis Memoirv, evidently written by himself, page 75. For our statements concerning the present names and owners of the several properties referred to, we are indebted to the Hon. J. 0. Dykman, Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, and a resident of the White Plains.
6 Memoirs of' General Heath, 75.
7 The Queen's Rangers, subsequently so widely known, had been raised in Connecticut and the vicinity of New York, for the duties which their name implied ; and, at the time of which we write, they were commanded by Lieutenant-colonel Robert Rogers, who had so much' distinguished himself as a partisan, on the frontiers, during the War with France. They were "all Americans, and all Loyalists." -- (Simcoe's Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Hangers, 18.)
These Rangers were said, by the biographer of their distinguished Commandant, of a later period, to have been "disciplined, not for parade, but "for active service. They were never to march in slow time ; were directed "to fire with precision and steadiness ; to wield the bayonet with force "and effect; to disperse and rally with rapidity. In short, in the in- " structions for the management of the Corps, its commander seems to
"have anticipated the more modern tactics of the French Army."