[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] died at Fordham in 1852; Cornelius Oakley, of White Plains; Brom Boyce, of the present Town of Mount Pleasant; Isaac Udell, of Yon-kers; and William Davids, of Tarrytown. 1 From an address, " Tarleton's Raid Through Chester County Historical Society in 1878. by Bedford in 1779," delivered before the West-the Rev. Lea Luquer, of Bedford. CHAPTER XX EVENTS OF 1777 AND 1778 EXERAL HEATH, placed in command at Peekskill on the 9th of November, 1770, had with him on the 21st of that month a force of about 4,000. On the 9th of December he was ordered to join the army in Xew Jersey with a portion of his troops, and went as far as Hackensack, but he was soon sent back, arriving in Peekskill on the 23d. The winter passed without any British movement being-attempted against him— on the con-trary he took the aggressive and boldly assailed the enemy at Kings-bridge in a siege of old Fort Independence and its supporting works which lasted twelve days. On the night of the 17th of January he moved down in three divisions— the right under General Lincoln from Tarivtown, the center under General Scott from below White Plains, and the left under Generals Wooster and Parsons from New Rochelle and Eastchester. The attacks on the outposts were so suc-cessful that a report (which Washington prematurely communicated to congress) gained currency that the fort had surrendered. The undertaking "was very well conducted from first to last, and re-flected high credit on General Heath.