[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Friday, the 18th of October, 1776, was a day of great anxiety in East Chester. The Hritish progress from Rodman's Neck, dispu ted, as it was, by Colonel Glover with six regiments all the way to Pell's Bridge, was, no doubt, watched with intense interest on this side of the Hutchinson River. The loss in this skir-mish was very heavy. The Americans returned to their cam]) at Hunt's Bridge, while the Roylist army pitched its tents on the Pelham flats, not, however, until it had deposited its sick and wounded in the yet unfinished stone church, nor if the tradition in the Van Cortlandt family be correct, until after a grand evening parade on the Green. A halt was made lor a few days, and then the English forces passed on to New Rochelle. In February, 1777, it was deemed necess.iry by the Continental army to remove or destroy all the grain and forage in the tow n of East Chester and neighbor-hood, to prevent its falling into the hands of the enemy. A skillful disposition of the troops was. therefore, made in order to effect this without hin-drance. Five hundred of the Connecticut line were stationed along the Old Post road, between East