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Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution

Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886. 277 words

5 General Howe to Lord George Gei-maine, ' ' New-York, 30 November, " 1776 ; " [Hall's] History of the Civil War in Amei-ica, i., 207 ; Stedman's History of the American War, i., 212 ; Marshall's Life of George Washington, ii., 503 ; etc.

6 Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in the Army, dated ' ' Camp near "the Mills, about three miles North of "White -Plains, November *'l, 1776," re-priuted in Force's American Archives, "V. iii., 473, 474.

We have learned from the Retwns of the Killed, Wounded, and Missing, on that day, of Regiments who are known to have taken no part what - ever in the subsequent action on Chatterton's-hill, of what Regiments that force who met the King's troops, near Hart's-corners, was composed : it contained the Regiments commanded by Colonels Silliman, Selden, Sage, and Douglass-- the latter commanded by Lieutenant-colonel Arnold -- all of them of the Brigade commanded by General Wadsworth ; the Regiment commanded by Colonel Chester, of the Brigade commanded by Colonel Sargent ; the Regiments commanded by Colonels Baldwin, Douglass, and Lieutenant-colonel Ely, of the Brigade commanded by General Saltonstall ; and the Regiments commanded by Colonels Holman and Smith, of the Brigade commanded by General Fellows. All thpsemade Returns of Casualties sustained by them, on that occasion : how many other Regiments there were, whose bashfulness forbade the making of any Returns, we have not ascertained.

* Letter from a Gentleman in the Army, "Camp near the Mills, about "three miles North of White-Plains, November 1, 1776;" Memoir of Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge, prepared by himself, at the request of his children, 13 ; etc.