Revolutionary Incidents of Suffolk and Kings Counties; With an Account of the Battle of Long Island and the British Prisons and Prison-Ships at New Yo 12+

📕 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ...the whole British army to a stand ) Thence they turned off east of Dan'l Rapalje's and crossed the fields to the south of Howard's half-way house, where they halted in front of his house. About 2 o'clock in the morning, after the market wagons had passed, Howe,? with a citizen's hat on and a eamblet cloak over his uniform dress, entered Wm. Howard's tavern, attended by Clinton and two aids, and asked for something to drink, conversed with him, and asked if he had joined the association? Howard said he had. "That's all very well. Stick to your integrity. But now you are my prisoner, and must lead me across these hills out of the way of the enemy, the nearest way to Gowanus." Howard accordingly conducted the army by a passage way between his house and horse shed over the hills and woods east of his house, till they came to the cleared land north of the woods. The horses drew the artillery up the hill in a slanting direction, and halted on the brow to breathe a little. The army then proceeded west and came out at Baker's tavern by the Gowanas road. The British took Adj. Jeromus Hoogland Lt. Troup and Lt. Dunscomb, American patroles, at the big white oak (since struck by lightning) in the middle of the road by the mile post, a...