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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. 310 words

vates, missing 1 -- among those who were killed were Captains Bracco and Scott, of Colonel Smallwood's Regiment; and, among those who were wounded, were Colonel Smallwood and Lieutenants Goldsmith and Waters, of the same Regiment. 2 General Howe reported to the Home Government, evidently including all who were captured in Westchester-county, that one Captain, two Lieutenants, one Quarter-master, and thirty-five Privates were taken, "October 12 -- " White Plains ; " s but we have no means for ascertaining who of these were taken prisoners on the twenty-eighth of October. The loss sustained by the Second Brigade of British troops, commanded by General Leslie, was Lieutenant-colonel Carr.Captains Deering and Gore, Lieutenant Jocelyn, Ensign Eagle, oni Sergeant, and twenty-nine Rank and File, 4 killed; Lieutenant-colonel Walcott, 5 Captain Fitzgerald, Captain-lieutenant Massey, 6 Lieutenants Taylor, Banks, and Roberts, twelve Sergeants, and one hundred and two Rank and File, 7 wounded ; and two Rank and File, " missing. " The three Regiments composing the

1 The following table will show the losses which were sustained by each of the several Regiments who were posted on the hill.

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Regiments.

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Doctor Pine, in his letter to James Tilghman, dated "Camp at tiu: "White-Plains, November 7, 1776," Said, " the number of killed and "wounded, as the reportis, in the Camp, amounts only to about ninety ; " but from the wounded I saw, myself, in the hospital and adjacent " houses, there must, at least, be an hundred and thirty wounded.