Here they were surprised on Monday or Tuesday (21st or 22nd) by an American party, said to have been three times as numerous, that advanced across the fields by way of the Quaker or Quaker Meeting house. A sentinel was posted near the cross road to the Quaker Meeting house a little north of the road and close to [page break] 190 399 to the low ground about 300 yards west of the Post road. This sentinel was killed by the Americans whose guides were good and well acquainted with the grounds occupied by Rogers. Schofield is mis- taken in saying it was an out post the Americans attacked. (Mr. Hall is mistaken about this and admits it). They attacked, as I have always un- derstood, the main body, and took one company prisoners. Rogers was said to have behaved well. He was asleep in the school house when the alarm was given, and immediately put himself at the head of his men, and fired several times very heavily upon the assailants who retreated. In the morning of the 21st when Rogers was come upon the ground first, he had a small skirmish with an Ameri- can scouting party which he drove away. He was much censured for suffering himself to be surprised, and, as I have said, heard, it was with reason he [page break] 400 193 58. he gave up the command of the Queens Rangers. He destroyed at Mamaroneck a very considerable quantity of rum and molasses which the Ameri- cans could not remove for want of teams. The American party that attacked Rogers came across the fields (6) but the cross road to the Quaker Meeting house was then in nearly its present state, not- =withstanding what Mr. Schofield says).