The official Plan of the Country from Frog's Point to Croton River and Sauthier's Planof the Operations, etc., each stated that the column was not in motion after the twenty-seventh of October.

There is abundant evidence, within Colonel Glover's own letter, that he was in error, two days, in this particular statement.

10 Colonel Glover's letter, dated "Mile-Square, October 22, 1776."

* That Salt is said to have been owned by the State of New York. It was very valuable ; and the loss of it was also noticed in the American records of that period.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

mile and in open sight-- of an active, powerful, wellsupplied, and well-disciplined enemy, with very little, if with any, loss, 1 was a feat which reflected and continues to reflect, the highest honor on both the General in command* and the men whom he commanded. The entire Army, except the troops who had been left on Mount Washington and at Kingsbridge-- about fourteen . hundred at the former, and six hundred at the latter -- was, then, concentrated at the White Plains, 2 awaiting and preparing for the great events which were rapidly approaching.

The White Plains, the place which appeared to have been designated by both the great opposing powers, as if by mutual consent, for that on which the great questions then pending between Great Britain and the united States of America were to be determined by the arbitrament of Arms, the County-seat of the ancient County of Westchester, is situated on the upper extremity of a fine plain, about twenty-six miles from the City of New York. At the time of which we write, the Village was composed of a considerable number of comfortable dwellings, scattered along the sides of two or three roads which converged at that place, two Taverns, a Presbyterian Meetinghouse and a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, and the Court-house of the County, within which, probably, all the County-offices were, also, sheltered.