" General McDougaVs Brigade, of which the Maryland Regulars is " a part, having laid in the woods for three nights,'' [preceding the day of the action on CJiatterton's-hill, that is to say, on the nights of the tiventyfifth, twenty-sixth, and twenty-seventh of October,] "two miles from this " place, and to the right of the main body, aa a covering party, was or- " dered to advance along the road, about a mile, near a place called the " Milestone, and there take post, which waB accordingly done." (Letter to a Gentleman in Annapolis, dated " White-Plains, October 29, 1776," re-printed in Force's American Archives, V., ii., 1284.)

' " I am so closely confined to my post, on the left of the whole, as not " to have been a quarter mile West from this for four days past. Near " three thousand of the enemy, yesterday and the evening before, filed " off to the left, aud were seen advancing towards King's street and the " Purchase road. Our lines were manned all night, in con-

" sequence of this ; and a most horrid night it was to lay in cold "trenches. . . I have only time to add that I am with usual " health, though in no better lodging than a soldier's tent, with our old " friend General Scott." (General George Clinton to John McKesson, "Camp near White-Plains, October 31, 1776.")

2 " On the same evening, " [ October 23,] " Ool. Tyler's, Huntington's, and " Throop's Regiments, of General Parson's Brigade and of our General's "Division, moved, aud took post at the head of King street, near Rye- " pond."-- (Memoirs of General Beath, 75, 76.)