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
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who retreated soon after they took the their picket guard. The wounded British and Americans remained all night and most of the next day on the ground and were at last removed in ox-carts to New Rochelle church where nearly all of them died. Rogers' party would, probably, have all been retaken if the Americans had known their numbers. Rogers was blamed for the position he took and for being surprised. He had orders to take post a little in advance of New Rochelle village, but finding no good ground for encampment, and hearing that a quantity of stores for the American army was at Maroneck he advanced to that place. There was a great quantity of rum, flour, pork, &c, in the houses and barns on the landing which he destroyed or had removed. Rogers was at the time an old and rough looking man. The turnpike road and bridge over Maroneck river is south of where the road and bridge formerly were. There
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