Lossing, (Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution, ii., 823,) said, uncertainly, itwas "toward the Croton River." General Knox, in a letter written to his brother, dated " Near Whits- " Plains, 32 miles from New-York, 1 Nov. 1776," said " the enemy's "possession of this hill obliged us to abandon some slight lines thrown "up on the White Plains. This we did, this; morning, [and retired to "some hills about half a mile in the rear."

As the left of the former line did not move from the position which it had occupied since the twenty-second of October; and because the remainder of the Army, without disturbing the formation of the line, did no more than to swing back, on a pivot, into its new position, the extreme right could not have been more than two miles distant from the former line, probably it was not much more than half that distance.

13 General Washington to the President of the Congress, " White-Plains, "6 November, 1776."

See, also, Gordon's History of the American Revolution, ii., 344 ; Marshall's Lift of George Washington, ii., 506 ; [Hall's] History of the Civil War in America, i., 210 ; Stedman's History of the American Wnr, i., 216 ; etc.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

which had been vacated; 1 and, during the night, it set fire to several barns and one house, which contained forage; and some Provisions which, for the want of teams, could not be removed, were also destroyed. 2

On the morning after the withdrawal of the main body of the American Army from its lines, at the head of the White Plains, [Friday, November 1, 1776,] General Howe gave orders for the occupation of those lines, by the Royal Army; but, again, a violent rain interposed; and the project was abandoned. 3 At a later hour, however, the Hessian Grenadiers were moved from Chatterton's-hill, and occupied those lines, 4 very possibly as the beginning of a movement against the new position of the American Army, which, after a due examination of its strength, was conducted no further. 5