History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress . nparalleled severity hung over thecity from seven to ten in the evenint:;; four men, three of whom Auk. 21. were army officers, were killed by lightning, and several others 1 See Vol. T. 760 (genealogieal referenee in note) ; Augustus Van Cortlandt was of theYonkers braneli of the Van Cortlandts, the sou of Fiedeiiok Van (ortlandt and Frances Jay,and thus the first eousin of John Jay. See Vol. I. 606, 607, note. 106 HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. injured; numerous buildiugs and trees, and one vessel at the dock, werestruck, t
History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress . nparalleled severity hung over thecity from seven to ten in the evenint:;; four men, three of whom Auk. 21. were army officers, were killed by lightning, and several others 1 See Vol. T. 760 (genealogieal referenee in note) ; Augustus Van Cortlandt was of theYonkers braneli of the Van Cortlandts, the sou of Fiedeiiok Van (ortlandt and Frances Jay,and thus the first eousin of John Jay. See Vol. I. 606, 607, note. 106 HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. injured; numerous buildiugs and trees, and one vessel at the dock, werestruck, the thunder roaring in a continuous peal for hours. In the midstof the tempest the ever-watchful William Livingston upon the Jerseyshore, having sent a spy into the enemys camp on Staten Island at mid-night the day before, despatched by messenger a letter written in allhaste to Washington with the intelligence that twenty thousand troopshad embarked for a movement upon New York. A copy of the com-munication was at once forwarded to the Couveutiou at White Sketch of Battle-Ground. The morning tlie looming of cannon was heard, and columns ofsmoke were descried arising from the direction of Gravesend, Long ^ Island. Three frigates, Phamix, Rose, and Grriihumul, had takentlieir stations as covering-ships for the landing, and before noon the roadsand plains in and about Gravesend and New Utrecht were thronged withscarlet uniforms and glittering with Viurnished steel. Colonel Hand,^ 1 Edward Hand was a native of (lydiiff, Kings County, Ireland ; he settled in Pennssl-vania in 1774, intending to practice profession, —that of a surgeon. He joined the armyat the outset of the Revolution, and remained in service until the close of the war. In 1777he was made a brigadier-general. He was thirty-two years of age at the time of the battle ofLong Island, of fine martial figure, and distinguished among the officers for his noble horse-manship. After the war he held offices
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