[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] enforce both, in case the enemy landed; and that he should be sup-ported." Upon the arrangements thus made were to depend, a tew days later, perhaps the very salvation of the American army. Of the fio-ht which occurred there, Mr. Fordham Morris, in his -History of the Town of Westchester," appropriately says that it was the "Lexina-ton of Westchester," and that it is to be "hoped that the wealth and patriotism of the Town of Westchester will some day cause an appropriate monument to be erected near the bridge m commemoration of the baffle of Westchester Creek.' ' Lou-before the period at which we have now arrived the whole oi the Westchester County militia had been ordered into active service. Some were sent to Peekskill and the Highlands, and some were posted along the Hudson River; but most of them were attached to General Heath's command at Kingsbridge, and were detailed to o-uard the southern ami eastern shore line. It was, in the aggregate, a curious armament that Westchester County contributed to the con-tinental battalions.