During the entire period succeeding the determination to move the main body of the American Army from the Heights of Harlem to the White Plains, there were the most active preparations to secure a successful retreat, throughout every portion of the Army. It is said the Mortars, some of the Cannon, a portion of General Washington's Baggage, and some of the Sick had been taken to the western side of the Hudson-river, before that determination was made; 8 on the morning of the twenty-second, the Sick who had not been sent over the Hudson-river, were sent

"1776," and copied into The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1770, Philadelphia, Wednesday, November 6, 1776, stated that the affair occurred on Wednesday, the twenty-third of October, as stated in the text ; that the supporting party belonged to Colonel Hand's Regiment of Riflemen, instead of to Colonel Glover's Kegiment ; that the Americans buried ten of the Hessians, on the field ; and that the only loss sustained by the Americans was "one lad wounded, supposed mortally." A letter from a Gentleman in the Army, dated " Camp near the Mills, about " three miles North of the White Plains, November 1, 1776," published in Force's American Archives, V., iii., 473, stated that "our people " buried thirteen Hessians left dead on the field ; " that " one wounded "Lieutenant was taken ; " that, " although we had not one man killed "on the ground," we had " six or eight wounded, but one, it is thought, "mortally;" and that the Major's Commission was found on the ground ; "but whether it belonged to any of the slain or to some Officer "who might be wounded and carried off, they could not determine."