It was probably thrown up by the email body of Militia who had occupied that position, as a guard of the Stores which had been accumulated at that place, while the main Army occupied the Heights of Harlem ; but the subsequent occupation of the ground, which has been described in the text, by the main Army, was followed by the construction of a line of works, on the high ground, on the rear of that temporary line, the last-named of which was abandoned on Saturday, the twenty-sixth of October.*

5 This description of the line of defences occupied by the American Army, at the White Plains, was originally prepared, more than thirty years ago, with great care, from every authority which was then known to us and from information derived from aged people who have, since passed away ; and the present ownership of the several properties over which the line extended has been ascertained and communicated to us by Hon. Lewis C. Piatt and Hon. J. 0. Dykman, to whom we have already gratefully referred.

" I now snatch an opportunity by the Post of informing you that

* "26-- We Have ben a moveing our Tents to the top of the Hill th s ' Day."-- (David How's Diary, October 26, 1776.")

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

the Brigades commanded, respectively, by Generals George Clinton, John Morin Scott, and Samuel H. Parsons, the two former having been posted near the Purchase, 1 and the latter at the head of King-street, near Rye pond. s