. History of the city of New York: its origin, rise and progress . at in Flatbush, but extended hospitalities to them all untiltliey should be better provided for. The Aan Homes returned with the Clarksons, and,although avowed Whigs, were treated with great respect by the British officers. — The Clark-sons of New York, Vol. I. 251 - 258. The coat of arms and autograph illustrated in thesketch were those of Secretary Matthew Clarkson. 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 deserte
. History of the city of New York: its origin, rise and progress . at in Flatbush, but extended hospitalities to them all untiltliey should be better provided for. The Aan Homes returned with the Clarksons, and,although avowed Whigs, were treated with great respect by the British officers. — The Clark-sons of New York, Vol. I. 251 - 258. The coat of arms and autograph illustrated in thesketch were those of Secretary Matthew Clarkson. 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 of young Clarksons mother and Mrs. Van Home), where he metand made the personal acquaintance of General Greene, who recommended him to Wash-ington, by whom 1h was appointed aide-de-camp to General Benedict AEtlS AHD SIGaATTIEa OOTIEX) rEJDli,.A. CDMVJEYAiJCS ETCTlCUTHD HT IIAJ LiLtJW CHAJRKIS OK, ITTBTTOAJIV:IS-I701. An MY OFFICERS. 103 aptitude for the ser\ice. Greene was stationed at Brooklyn, and engagedin throwing up works with remarkable vigor and rapidity ; but he wasscarcely thirty-four, without experience, except in tlieoiy and such as hehad acquired at tlie head of his Rhode-Islanders at lUinker Hill, and hismilitary judgment was crude. Mittlin was about the same age, of higldyanimated apiiearance, full of activity and apparently of tire, but too muchof a bustler, harassing his men unnecessarily. Knox, the artillery colonel,although brave as a lion, or any braver thing, was only twenty-six, andfresh from a Boston bookstore. Eeed was thirty-five, and invaluable frommany poinis of view, but no veteran in the management of was one year under forty, and wdiile a born organizer, ever on thealert, breath
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