The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn / Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long island and the loss of New York, with a review of events to the close of the year

by Henry Phelps Johnston

[236] Of Col. Samuel Selden's Conn. Regiment.

[237] Aide-de-Camp to General Washington.

[238] Col. Tyler, commanding the 10^th Regiment of Continentals (from Connecticut) was ordered under arrest by General Washington for "cowardice and misbehaviour before the enemy on Sunday, the 15^th instant." The testimony at the preliminary trial brought out some of the incidents of that day's confusion and panic.

[239] Maj. C.L. Baurmeister, of the Hessian Division.

[240] A part of this diary was published in the Moravian, Bethlehem, Penn., in 1876, with notes prepared by Rev. A.A. Reinke, present pastor of the Moravian congregation in New York. The extracts for 1775 appear in print now for the first time, and, of the whole, only those which bear upon public affairs are given here. In 1776, the Moravian Church stood in Fair street (now Fulton), opposite the old North Dutch Church on the corner of William street.

[241] Capt. Michael Cresap, of Maryland.

[242] Thomas Hickey.

[243] Washington's Chief Engineer in 1776.

[244] Capt. Bradford, of Rhode Island, was Aide-de-Camp to General Lee at the time of the latter's capture, and gave this account of the affair to the Rev. Dr. Stiles, then at Dighton, R.I.

[245] Gen. Wolcott, at this date, was a delegate in Congress from Connecticut.