[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Peabody's " Life of Israel Putnam." Sparks' "American lllog-raphy." * Pcahody's " Life of Israel Putnam." > Bui ton's "History of Westchester County," »ol. (. p. 91 (olded.t. above, who issues positive orders in General Wash-ington's name for the sending of a much-needed re-inforcement to the commander-in-chief and also a reprimand from headquarters. December, 1777, the troops went into winter-quarters in the Highlands. February 13, 1778, in a letter to Washington, he tells of the sufferings of his troops : " Dubois' regiment is unfit to be ordered on duty, there being not one blanket in the regiment. Very few have either a shoe or a shirt, and most of them have neither stockings, breeches or overalls." 5 During ten months that he was in command he hung two spies. At a little distance from the site of the old head-quarters, in the grounds of the Peekskill Academy on " Oak Hill," stands the huge oak tree from which the hill is named, and on which Daniel Strang, the spy, was hung. Strang, it appears from a short notice of him in Thacher, was found lurking about the army at Peekskill, and arrested on suspicion of being a spy. On being searched, a paper was found on him, written by Colonel Robert Rogers, who then com-manded the Queen's Rangers, dated at Valentines Hill, 30th December, 1776, authorizing him or any other person to bring in recruits for His Majesty's ser-vice, and stating the terms and rewards that were to be offered.