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.
Bancroft, in his History of lite United States, (original edition, ix., 178 ; centenary edition, v. 442,) regarded the Bangers as only "a picket of "Bogers's Begimentof Bangers," notwithstanding General Howe had ■described it, definitely, as a detachment of the entire " Corps of Ban- "gers" not a portion of it, only, which had been sent forward, " to take possession of Mamaroneck ; " and no one, of either Army, con-