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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. 317 words

including, among the trophies of their bravery, " a "pair of Colors, sixty stand of Arms, and a variety of " plunder," 1 among the latter of which were "a good " many Blankets." 2 On the side of the Americans, "three or four were left, dead, and, about fifteen were " wounded, among the latter, Major Green, of the "Second Virginia Regiment, wounded in the shoul- " der, and Captain Pope, who acted as Major, and " behaved with great bravery, wounded in the leg." 3 •General Lord Stirling is said to have been " so highly " pleased with the success of the expedition, that he "thanked Colonel Haslet and his command, pub- " licly, on the parade." *

families of whom they were prohably members. As many of them appear to have been of Westcheater-county 'origin, we append the list, corrected .as far as we have been able to correct it :

* Joseph Dean, ♦Stephen Law, ♦Elijah Carle, *John Angevine, *Joseph Carle, Walter Brown, Gilbert Myers, ♦Frederic Devoe, David Lawrence, ♦James Angevine, John Charlick, Jeremiah Wood, Reuben Stivers, *David Travis, • John Worden, ♦Elijah Bartow,

♦Jonathan Austin,

Francis Basley, James Sharp, Solomon Parent, Jonathan Eddy,

♦Stephen Travis,

♦James Cannady,f

♦Moses Travis, Abraham Brown,

♦Elnathan Appleby, Jedediah Davis, Jacob Cadwell Burr, James Melson, [^Nelson f] Noah Brown, William Washburn.

1 Colonel Haslet wQeneral Rodney, " White-Plains, October 28, 1776."

2 LieutenantrColonel TUghman to his father, " Valentine's-Hill, 4 miles •"from Kingsbbidge, 22 October, 1776."

& Colonel Haslet to General Rodney, "White-Plains, October 28, 1776." * Those who shall desire to learn more of this affair are referred to ■General Washington's letter to Governor Trumbull, "Camp on Valen- " tine's-Hill, October 22, 1776; " the same, to the Continental Congre&t, " Head-quarters, White-Plains, 25 October, 1776 ; " Extract of a ■letter from Fort Lee, dated " October 22," in Tlie Philadelphia Evening Post, Vol.