" North of White-Plains, November 1, 1776," we have already made extracts, stated that the command of General Spencer, on the occasion under notice, "consisted, in the whole of five or six hundred men;" but, on the third of November, five days 'after the engagement, the same Regiments reported an aggregate strength of four thousand, seven hundred, and ninety-six, of whom five hundred and sixty Officers, non-commissioned Officers, and Musicians, and two thousand and seventy-six Privates "fit for duty," were present. (General Beturnqf the Army in the service of the United States, November 3, 1776.) We have determined, therefore, that the effective strength of the Regiments, on the occasion under notice, before they were met by the enemy, was not far from twenty-six hundred men, as we have said in the text.

Lieutenant colonel Tench Tilghman, one of the Aides of General Washington, in a letter to his father, dated "White-Plains, 31st Octo- " ber, 1776," said, "On Monday morning we rec d Information that the " Enemy were in Motion and in March towards our Lines, all our Men " were immediately at their Alarm Posts and about 2000 detached to give "the Enemy as much annoyance as^possible on their approach ;" and Brigade-major Tallmadge, of the Brigade commanded by General Wadsworth, himself present and a participant in the affair, stated, (Memoir of Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge, prepared by himself, 13,) that it was "a detachment of 2000 or 3000 men ;" both of which statements, from those who were entirely competent to make them with accuracy, go far to confirm what we have more definitely stated in the text.