We have already alluded, 10 • incidentally, to the robberies of Horses which were inflicted on the farmers of that County, by Officers of the American Army, for their private uses, at their respective homes -- not by the Rank and File, nor by the soldiers' wives and concubines, nor in a foreign country; but by the Commissioned Officers of the Army of Americans who had been moved into the County, for the protection of the inhabitants and of their properties. To such an extent were those robberies of Horses, to be sent to the homes of the thieves, for their private uses, carried on, that, after several General Orders, bearing on the subject, had

1 General Washington to Governor Livingston, "White-Plains, 7 No- " vember, 1776."

In a letter to General Greene, written on the same day, the General said, "They," [Hie farmers, in New Jersey,] "may rely upon it, that the " enemy will leave nothing they find among them ; nor do they dis- " criminate between Whig and Tory. Woful experience has convinced " the latter, in the movements of the enemy, in this State, of this truth." -- {General Washington to General Greene, " Whitk-Plains, November 7, "1776.")

8 " The people who remained in that part of the country," [ Westchester-cotwty,) " through which they pass'd, have been most cruelly plun " dered ; many helpless women had even their shifts taken from their " backs by the soldiers' wives, after the great plunderers had done ; and, " in this general ravage, no discrimination was made of Whig or Tory." (Letter from Stamford, dated "12th Nov. 1776," published in The Freeman's Journal, or New-Hampshire Gazette, Vol. I., No. 28, Portsmouth, Tuesday, December 3, 1776.)