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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. 261 words

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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. The " number of killed I don't know."

2 Letter to a Gentleman in Annapolis, dated "White-Plains, October 2 \ " 1776 ; " published in The Pennsylvania Journal, No. 1771, Philadelphia, Wednesday, November 13, 1776, and in Force's American Archives, V., ii., 1284 ; Lieutenant-colonel Gist to the Maryland Council of Safety, "Camp before the White-Plains, 2 November, 1776 ; " etc.

3 Eeturn of Prisoners taken during the Campaign, 1776,'signed by "Jos- " Loring, Commissary of Prisoners," appended to General Howe's despatch to Lord George Germaine, dated "New-York, 3 December, 1776."

4 In General Leslie's Return, the killed were stated to havo been only twenty-two Rank and File.

15 In General Leslie's Eeturn, no mention was made of a Field-officer of the Fifth Regiment having been wounded.

* In General Leslie's Return of Officers wounded, Captain Massey's name is among those of the Lieutenants, although the tabular statement returns him as a Captain, in which it agrees with General Howe's Keport. He was a Captain-Lieutenant.

7 In General Leslie's Return, the wounded were stated to have numbered one hundred and twelve Bank and File.