Line with 240 men failed - Major Henley killed - 14 men killed + wounded + missing Octr 3d -A Redoubt command on * Hill where Williams Bridge * (Tuesday) 8th 3 Br. Frigates + several Tenders passed Forts Wash^n + Const.. + the chevaux de frise & 2 Am. Ships ran* on shore at Philips Mills & 2 Galleys near Dobbs Ferry 68 n.b 2+4 " 9th Col. Saycant* detached to Dobb's Ferry against the Br. with 500 infantry, 40 Light Horse, 2 p.s of cannon & one How-itzer &c. W. 69. " 12th The Br. from Montresor's I., Long I. & N.Y. (and on Frog's Neck & push for the Bridge - Planks taken up by Hands riflemen. - Pass at head of the Creek guarded by the Am^ns. Br. encamp on Neck Yagers & Rifleman fire across marsh. " 18th The British cross to Pells Neck & move briskly upwards. Shepard, Baldwin, Read & Glover's Regiments advanced & took a posn behind a stone fence - the Br. at first checked - Am^ns retire bef. sup force with a loss of about 40 killed + wounded. 73 " 18th British Camp near N. Rochelle Village on the Borders of Pelham till 21st Oct. ?
Notes on the American Revolution in the Handwriting of John M. MacDonald. from the Originals in the Library of The New York Historical Society Copied in 1927
Vol. 1. Containing the Journals of the Provincial Congress; Provincial Convention: Committee of Safety & Council of Safety. Vol.1. In Provincial Convention, April 20. 1775 On the 28th day of March 1775, a No. of Gentl from difft districts in the county of Westchester met at the White Plains &c & recommended a general meeting of the Freeholders of the said County, to be held at the Court House at that place, on Tuesday the 11th day of April the next, at 10 o'clock A.M., for the purpose of taking the sense of the Freeholders of the said County upon the expediency of choosing Deputies, to meet the Deputies of the other Counties, in order to elect Delegates to represent this Colony in the Continental Congress, to be held at Philadelphia, on the 10th day of May next. - In pursuance whereof, a very numerous body of the Freeholders of the County assembled at the Court House at White Plains, on the 11th day of April 1775, & chose [illegible] Lewis Morris for their Chairman &c. - An inconsiderable no. of persons (among whom were many Tenants not entittled to a vote.) with Isaac Wilkins Esq. & Col.