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.)

8 Vide pages 251, ante.

* General Heath to Colonel Lasher, " White Plains, October 27, 1776 ; " General Greene to General Mifflin, " Tort Lee, October 27, 1776 ;" Memoirs of General Beath, 79, 80.

5 General Greene to General Washington, " Fobt Lee, October 29, "1776."

« Colonel Lasher to General Beath, " Camp at King's BRinoE, October "26.1776."

1 Memoirs of General Beath, 79, 80.

a Colonel Lasher to General Beath, "Camp at King's Briuge, October "26, 1776."

ington, in person, was composed, nominally, of about twenty-five thousand, four hundred, and fifty men, of whom about twelve thousand and fifty were sick, on independent commands, or on furlough ; leaving only about thirteen thousand, four hundred, rank and file, present and fit for duty. 9 The supply of Provisions, as the reader has been already informed, 10 was exceedingly scanty ; " the Medicine-chest was almost destitute of both instruments and drugs ; w and Clothing was a luxury in which very few could comfortably indulge themselves. 13 The troops, as we have already stated, 14 were dispirited and, often, disaffected ;