"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."

Colonel Glover's letter, dated "Mile-Square, October 22,* 1776," published in The Freeman's Journal and Netc-Hampshire Gazette, Vol. I., No. 27, Portsmouth, Tuesday, November 26, 1776.

7 Doctor Sparks, in the Writings of George Washington, iv., 152, note ; Memoir of General Heath, 75.

Compare, also, Lieutenant-colonel TUghman to the New York Convention, " HEAn-QUARTERe, Valentine's-Hii.l, October 22, 1776," with the same to William Duer, "Head-quarters, White-Plains, October 23, 1776."