[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] fc A§ ^ ^ -^ * ^ ®! \3^ 442 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY chapter on the Indians transpired. A band of about sixty so-called Stockbridge Indians (descendants of the Mohican tribe which orig-inally possessed what is now Westchester County), under the com-mand of the Chief Nimham, was detached to the south from Wash-ington's army. On The 20th of August the Indians attacked and drove down to Kingsbridge a force of the enemy under Lieutenant-Colonel Emmerick. During the next few days they continued in the lower part of the Town of Yonkers. Here, on August 31, they were surrounded and surprised by the Queen's Rangers under Simcoe, the Chasseurs under Emmerick, de Lancey's 2d battalion, and the Legion Dragoons under Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton. Forty of their num-ber, including their chief and his son, were killed or desperately wounded. Tins slaughter was one of the most considerable result-ing from any single encounter on Westchester soil during the Revo-