[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Your Excellency's most obedient servant, by order To his Excellency Gen, Washington. July 16th, 1776. A letter from Colonel Hammond then sta-tioned at Tarrytown, was read. The Colonel therein informs the convention, that the ships of war have left that harbor, and are sailing up the river with a fair wind, towards the Highlands. Thereupon it was resolved, that Colonel Van Cortlandt and Mr. Z. Piatt^ be directed to re-pair immediately to the Highlands. '^ » Jour. N. Y. Pro. Cou Book I. 523. t-A distinguished ofEcer of the American service, grandfather of Lewis C. Plait, Esq., present surrogate of the county. • Journal N. Y. Pro. Con. Book I. 525. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 233 Upon the 9(h of October, 1778, a body of 1100 British troops embarked on board batleaux at Peekskill and the same night proceeded to Tarrytown, where they landed at daybreak, and oc-cupied the heights adjoining.* Jnly 15th, 1781, ( remarks Thatcher, in his Military Journal,) two of the British frigates, and several smaller vessels, passed up the North River as far as Tarrytown, in defiance of our can-non, which were continually playing on them. Their object ap-pears to be, to seize some of our small vessels which are passing down the river with supplies for our army. One small sloop loaded with bread for the French army, has fallen into their hands.''^