Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution

9 Our own knowledge of the ground and its approaches enabled uh to make the statement which appears in the text ; and, by a reference to A Plan of the Country from Frog^s Point to Croton River, the reader may see the evidence of the accuracy of that statement.

10 Letter from the White Plains, dated October 28, 1776, at two o'clock, : P.M., published in The Pennsylvania Evening Post, Vol. II., No. 278, ' Philadelphia, Thursday, October 31, 1776, and in The Pennsylvania i Journal, No. 1770, Philadelphia, Wednesday, November 6, 1776.

i al Memoirs of Major-general Heath, 79.

1 See, also, William Harrison to the Maryland Council of Safely, "Georqe-

! "town, Kent-county, 28 November, 1776."

12 Colonel Haslet to General Comar Rodney, ' November 12." ^Letter to a Gentleman in Annapolis, dated " White-Plains, October 29 '" 1776 ;" published in The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1771, Philadelphia, Wednesday, November 13, 1776. w Memoirs of General Heath, 79.

General Howe, in his despatch to Lord George Germaine, dated " New-

"York, 30 November, 1776," stated that, after the engagement, "the

" Hessian Grenadiers," [those wlw had assaulted the left of the Americans,]

' " were ordered forward, upon the heights, within cannon-shot of the

" entrenchments, the Bronx, from its winding course, being still between

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

prepared his dinner, for the purpose of doing which he tore down and burned a barn which belonged to John Hunt, on property, on the western portion of the hill, which, in our younger days, belonged to his ' two sons, Thomas and Jacob Hunt. 1