[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] by the dragoons and French guard. Captain llurlburt, Captain-Lieu-tenant Miles, Quartermaster Shaylor and others jumped into the river and made for the sloops, in order to extinguish the fire, which they did, and saved the vessels; while in the water, Captain Hurlburt received a musket-ball through the thigh, but is now in a fair way to do well. About daylight, General Howe arrived with a division of troops and some artillery; a battery was opened on the enemy, which obliged them to slip their cables and fall down the river about two miles, where they continued till Tuesday, about noon, when General Howe again opened a battery on them, and obliged them to make sail up the river. They continued near Teller's Point till near Thursday, during which they sent their gunboats on shore, and burnt the elegant house of Captain Robert, at Haverstraw. About nimn, taking advantage of a fair wind and tide, they made sail and stood down the river. When coming near Dobbs Ferry (where the Americans had erected a battery of two eighteen-pounders. two French brass twelve, and seven half-inch howitzers) they (the Americans) commenced a heavy fire on them from the works, on both sides of the river; the British returned [the fire nit did not the least damage.