We cannot learn * the enemy have been able to carry off stores to any amount. & have taken with them only abt 40 sheep, & 8 - 10 head of cattle, & have penetrated a very little way in the country. The stores at Cortlandt's Corner's & Drake's Mills (?) are saved. There are only 4 houses burnt by the enemy. When Capt. Mitchell came away they were loosing their top sails & making ready to sail. They gave out yt they intended to stop at Tarrytown & endeavored to destroy the stores at Wright's Mills. We have no intelligence fr. Major Fish, but have reason to believe the stores there are saved, as some companies of the Cortlandt Manor militia have marched there.
We have lost no men, tho' 2 wounded, one it is feared, mortally. The enemy left 3 men dead on the field, & one taken prisoner. The Tories furnished the enemy with what cattle & sheep they got, but we cannot learn yt they flocked in to them in any great numbers. Lieut. Gans, with abt. 20 men, maintained his post at Fort Independence during the whole of the time. By a deserter, Genl. McDougall learned that the Enemy's force was about 600 all British, consisting of 4 regiments of about 150 each. &c…. "P.S. No militia has marched from this county except Col. Brinckerhoffs." p. 400. / "Robert Harper - to - Robert Yates Esq. Chariman of the Committee of * regiment at Espopus." "Fishkill, March 6, 1777." "Sir\…" By a letter from a worthy member at King Street, I am informed, that on the 1st inst (March 1) a party of our militia had taken off Frogg's Neck, about 150 horned cattle, with a large number of horses." That in executing this, they had passed by a vessel of war, within musket shot of her, without receiving the least interruption, and that our people there were in high spirits." p. 414. / [X] "You have undoubtly heard of Judge Thomas & Wm.