varied his duties by throwing a partyof his command, over the Bronx, during the night of Wednesday, the twenty-third of October, in order to beat up the outposts of the enemy ; and one of these, near Ward's Tavern, between Tuckahoe and»Scarsdale, and occupied by two hundred and fifty Hessians, was successfully attacked, early in the following morning, [Thursday, October 24,] ten of the number having been killed, and two taken prisoners ; 7 and it has been stated that, reciprocally, a dash was made on the rear of the slowly moving column, somewhere in the line of march, in which, among other losses, General Lee and Captain Alexander Hamilton, the latter of the New York State Artillery, lost their Baggage. 8 The column reached the White Plains, however, on Saturday, the twenty-sixth of October, with very little loss of either Stores or Troops. 9 The movement of eight thousand men, with a train of one hundred and fifty Wagons, which " filled the road for four "miles," and with Artillery, 10 under such peculiar circumstances, with such a scarcity of the means for transportation, and in the face -- often, within half a

7 Editorial in a Hartford newspaper, October 28, copied in The Freeman's Journal and New- Hampshire Gazette, Volume T., Number 24, Portsmouth, Tuesday, November 5, 1776 ; Memoirs of General Beath, 76.

8 Hon. James A. Hamilton, of Dobbs's-ferry, in a conversation with us, many years ago, told us that his father, Captain Alexander Hamilton, lost his Baggage, on the march of General Lee's command from Harlem Heights to the White Plains ; and The Middlesex Journal and Evening Advertiser, No. 1209, London : From Saturday, December 21, to TueBday, December 24, 1776, contains a letter from Westchester, dated November 10, 1776, and carried to England by the Fowey, in which it was stated, " Upon landing at New-Rocuelle, we found the church full of Salt.* Our "troops advanced to this place where we took General Lee's baggage."