See, also, the testimony, on the same subject, of Sergeant Churchill, of Tilley How, of James Linzer. and of Captain Keith, at the same trial.

• Understood, from aged people, many years since, to have occupied the lower portion of the property now occupied by the respected widow of the late C. Halsey Mitchell-- that portion of that property, indeed, which was occupied, so many years, for the Law-offlces of Minott Mitchell, Esq., so long the head of the Bar of Westchester-county.

1 General Orders of the Army, " Head-quarters, White-Plains, November 6, 1776 ; " The Committee of Safety for the State of New-York to the President of the Congress, "In Committee of Safety for the State " of New-York, Fishkill, November 28, 1776 ; " Memoirs of General

Heath, 83 ; etc.

8 General Orders of the Army, "Head-quarters. White-Plains, November 6, 1776."

8 Committee of Safely for the State of New-York to the President of the

had inflicted the great wrong, only after the most vigorous effort of General Lee, was mildly "dis- " missed from the service," by the verdict of a second Court-martial, who sat in judgment, on the culprit; 10 and he was turned over to the Convention of the State, to be dealt with, in an action by the State, resulting in his escape from the Jail at Kingston, which closed the subject, on the pages of history.

On Wednesday, the sixth of November, General Howe, with that portion of the Royal Army whom he had not pushed forward toward Kingsbridge, encamped at Dobbs's-ferry ; " and, on the same day, General Washington called a Council of his General Officers, to consult on such measures as should be adopted, in case the enemy should continue to fall back, on the City of New York. 12