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Mr. Schofield "Colonel Rogers, with his regiments of about four hundred men, came to Maroneck one morning soon after the British landed at Pelham, and encamped on the level ground, on the top of Heathcote Hill, just back of J. P. Delancey's house and where he formerly had a garden. They had no tents, and bivouacked around fires of rails. The road towards White Plains was well guarded, as if they should be attacked. They supposed that the enemy would advance by that road. They
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were attacked the same night, but the Americans approached by the Quaker Meeting house road and then crossed the fields to the road that comes into the Turnpike a little west of Delancey's. This road was then a lane leading into the fields for the accommodation of the farmers and not communicating with the Quaker Meeting or any other road but the Post road. Rogers had posted a picket guard west of the camp where there is now a tree with a large top. This guard, commanded by Capt. Eagles, was surrounded and taken. Rogers was quartered at a School house situated on the said cross road and came near being taken. He escaped to the camp ground which where he kept his ground, but the troops were for a while in great confusion. His men were Americans but not in uniform, and this created confusion in the American ranks where some also wore plain clothes. Part of their prisoners escaped from the Americans