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. II., No. 276, "Philadelphia, Saturday, October 26, 1776;" Extract of a letter from a General Officer, dated " Mount Washington, "October 23, 1776," in The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1769, "Philadelphia, Wednesday, October 30, 1776," and in Force's American Archives, V., U.,1203; Abram Clark to Colonel Dayton, " Elizabethtown, October ■"26, 1776;" Extract from a letter published by the Continental Congress, in The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1770, " Philadelphia, Wednesday, "November 6,1776;" General Howe to Lord George Germaine, " New- " Yobk, 30 November, 1776 ;" [Hall's] History of the CM War in America, i., 205 ; Gordon's History of the American Revolution, ii., 339 ; Memoirs of General Heath, 74, 75; etc.

Bolton, in his History of Westchester-counly, (original edition, l., 311 ; .second edition, i., 499) prefixed to General Heath's mention of this affair (except the date, which the latter had correctly stated,) the singular information that it occurred on "the day previous to the battle at White «' Plains," [October 27,] and that the command of the Americans was held by Colonel Smallwood, of the Maryland Line of the Continental Army.