On Friday sixty-five sail of vessels, " under convoy of the Diamond and Ambuscade, with the second divis- " ion of the Hessians and one thousand Waldeckers, under the command " of the Generals Knyphauseu and Schmidtz, and a number of recruits for " the British troops, in all about eight thousand effective men, arrived " off Sandy-Hook. They sailed from Plymouth Sound, the 27th of July. " In the fleet are several victuallers and vessels laden with draugbt- " horses for the train and baggage ot the Army." (The New-YorTt Gazette and Weekly Mercury, No. 1304, New-Yobk, Monday, October 21, 1776.)

See, also, Lord George Germaine to General Howe, " Whitehall, 21 "June, 1776."

1 General Howe to Lord George Germaine, "New-York, November 30, "1776;" [Hall's] History of the Civil War in America, i., 206 ; Sauthier's Plan of the Operations of the King's Army ; Gordon's History of the American Revolution, ii., 339; Plan of the Country from Frog's Point to Croton River ; etc.

Bolton, in his History of Westchester-county, (original edition, i., 440 ; second edition, i., 688) Baid General Knyphausen landed on Myers-point, or Davenport's neck, " ten days previous to the battle of White-Plains," [October 18,] the day on which he had reached Sandy-hook ; and in the first of the two editions, he cited, as his authority, Stedman's History of the American War, in which there is not the slightest mention of the date of the debarkation of the Division, beyond the fact that it was after the twenty-first of October, seven days before the action on Chatterton'shill.