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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. II — Passage 49 (part 2)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] " Unhappy am I to add that amidst all our sufferings the army employed for the protection of America have not refrained from embittering the calamities of war, at a time when the utmost resources of this state were laid open to their wants, and the members of Convention personally submiued to the labour and fatigue which were necessary on a sudden emergency, and after frequent losses of provisions and barracks, to supply two numerous armies, augmented by the militia, with every article which they required, the court-house and the remains of the village at the White Plains, which had been spared on the retreat of our forces, were, even after the enemy had in their