[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] wich, but failed, not, however, without recovering a large quantity of cattle and other plunder. The Ward house was the scene of another attack of the British, in November, 1778, who had determined to tear it down and use the material in the construction of huts for the soldiers during the coming winter. The building was entirely destroyed. On Friday, the 28th of May, 1779, the right column of a new encampment of the British forces was placed in East Chester, in all likelihood along the Mile Square road, but extending down to the creek. The left column was at the Philipse house, Yonkers. The regiments at East Chester were the Queen's Rangers, the Legion, the Seventh and the Sixty-third Foot.1 It would seem that at one time and another small detachments of either of the opposing armies were billeted in the village of East Chester. Colonel Emmerich, for lengthened periods, made his Head-quarters at the house of William Fowler, near Guion's tavern. The sufferings of the inhabitants of this town, in consequence of the presence or proximity of the two