History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress . eat in Flatbush, but hospitalities to them all untilthey should be better provided for. The Van Homes returned with the Clarksons, and,although avowed Whigs, were treated with great respect by the British officers. — Tlie Clark-sons of New York, Vol. I. 251-258. The coat of arms and autograph illustrated in thesketch were those of Secretary Matthew Clarksou, the first of the name in New York. ^ Smiths company was the first to cross the river on the retreat, and Matthew Clarksonslept the following night in the deserted
History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress . eat in Flatbush, but hospitalities to them all untilthey should be better provided for. The Van Homes returned with the Clarksons, and,although avowed Whigs, were treated with great respect by the British officers. — Tlie Clark-sons of New York, Vol. I. 251-258. The coat of arms and autograph illustrated in thesketch were those of Secretary Matthew Clarksou, the first of the name in New York. ^ Smiths company was the first to cross the river on the retreat, and Matthew Clarksonslept the following night in the deserted house of his aunt, Mrs. Van Home, in Wall shortly joined the family at New Brunswick. From here he went to the house belongingto his father in Percepany, occupied during the summer by Governor William Livingston(whose wife was the sister of young Clarksons mother and Mrs. Van Home), when- he metand made the personal acquaintance of General Greene, who recommended him to Wasli-ington, by whom he was apjiointed aide-de-camp to General Benedict ASMS AMU frirTTTATTrgTl DOEtED ISLDI^.Jl. cot>lv_tJVAUcra ARMY OFFICERS. 103 aptitude for the service. Greene was stationed at Brooklj-n, and enfjacedin up worlds witli reniarlaible vigor and rajiidity ; but lie wasscarcely thirty-four, without experience, except in theory and such as hehad acquired at the head of his Khode-lslanders at Bunker Hill, and hismilitary judgment was crude. Jlittlin was about the same age, of highlyanimated appearance, full of activity and apparently of fire, but too muchof a bustler, harassing his men Knox, the artillery colonel,although bra\e as a lion, or any braver thing, was only twenty-six, andfresh irom a Boston bookstore. Eeed was thirty-five, and invaluable frommany points of view, but no veteran in the management of was one year under forty, and while a born organizer, ever on thealert, breathing the very spirit of control, and possessing
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