. The battle of Pell's Point (or Pelham) October 18, 1776. Being the story of a stubborn fight. With a map, and illustrations from original photographs and family portraits. Pell or Hay house at its foot, they wheeledto the left on the old Post Road, and marching along the shortcauseway which they had traversed that morning, crossed theHutchinson. The original bridge long ago disappeared, as 1 Sylvanus Wood. 8 We could do but little before we retreated.—Glover. Our troops were as calm and steady as though expecting a shot at a flock ofpigeons, and not in the least daunted or confused. When the
. The battle of Pell's Point (or Pelham) October 18, 1776. Being the story of a stubborn fight. With a map, and illustrations from original photographs and family portraits. Pell or Hay house at its foot, they wheeledto the left on the old Post Road, and marching along the shortcauseway which they had traversed that morning, crossed theHutchinson. The original bridge long ago disappeared, as 1 Sylvanus Wood. 8 We could do but little before we retreated.—Glover. Our troops were as calm and steady as though expecting a shot at a flock ofpigeons, and not in the least daunted or confused. When the General (Glover)gave orders to retreat, it was (obeyed) with the greatest reluctance imaginable,though with as much good order and regularity as ever they marched off aPublick Parade.—Baldwin. 3 Balls and brass ornaments are frequently found on the heights of the residence of James Hay, Esq., part of a soldiers belt marked i6th discovered.—Bolton, Hist. Westchester Co., Vol. I (ist edition), p. 547. (The Hay house is the former Pell house near the Hutchinson bridge. It isnot the Thomas Pell house I have referred to, but a much later one).. has done a second and more pretentious one on the site of thepresent commonplace affair shown in the view. As the floor-ing had been taken up in the morning, the troops must havehad to get across as best they could, through deep, sticky mud. Reaching the rocky heights beyond, they rejoined theircomrades of Glovers own regiment, who covered their retreatby an artillery duel across the little valley until nightfall, with-out appreciable damage to either side. General Howe made no effort to cross the stream,1 butcamped on the high ground opposite, his right extendingnearly to New Rochelle, while the weary patriots fell backtwo miles and camped somewhere in the present Mount The next morning they retreated to Mile Square,3 justwest of the Bronx, and within the town of Yonkers. As Glovers regiment had no part
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