Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution

2 [Galloway's] Letters to a Nobleman, 36; [Galloway's] Reply to (he Observations of Lieut. Gen. Sir William Howe, on a pamphlet, entitled Letters to a Nobleman ; Letter from " Cicero " to Lord Howe, 2, 3 ; Wraxall's Memoirs of his own Time, Edit. Philadelphia : 1845, 163 ; etc.

8 A Letter to the Right Honorable Lord Viscount H e, Edit. London:

1779, 42, 43 ; Letter from " Cicero " to Lord Home, 196 ; Wraxall's Memoirs, 163 ; etc.

4 A Letter to the Right Honorable Lord Viscount H e, 43, 44; Letter

from *' Cicero " to Lord Howe, 1, 2 ; etc.

6 A Letter to tlie Right Honorable Ijord Viscount H e, 42, 43 ; Letter

from " Vkero" to Lord Howe, 7-9; The Middlesex Journal and Advertiser, Nn. 1207, London : From Saturday, December 14, to Tuesday, December 17, 1776 ; etc.

WESTCHESTEK COUNTY.

" been unavoidably taken up in landing at Frog's- "neck, instead of going, at once, to Pell's-point, " which would have been an imprudent measure, as it " could not have been executed without much un- " necessary risk.

" On the twenty-eighth of October, the engagement " at the White-Plains took place. But it has been " asserted, that, by my not attacking the lines, on the " day of that action, I lost an opportunity of destroy- " ing the Rebel Army ; and it has been also said, "that I might have cut off the enemy's retreat by the " Croton-bridge. Sir : an assault upon the enemy's " right, which was opposed to the Hessian troops, " was intended. The Committee must give me credit " when I assure them, that I have political reasons, " and no other, for declining to explain why that as- " sault was not made.