Rogers's regiment, (the Queen's Rangers) was 300 or 400 strong, well armed, but not in uniform, and, when night came, bivouacked around fires, 100 or 200 yards back of Delancey's house, in what used to be called Heathcote's heights or hill. 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 Meeting House. A sentinel was posted near the cross road to the Quaker Meetinghouse a little north of the road and close
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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 outpost 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 schoolhouse 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 a small skirmish with an Ameri- -can scouting party which he drove away. He was much censured for suffering himself to surprised, and, as I have heard, it was with reason he,