Head Quarters De Lancy's Mill
15th November 1776.
Three
Parties of a Corporal and Six Dragoons each [are] to take post at Major General
Grants Quarters, at Williams's House near the Encampment of the 23d Regiment
and at the Post occupied by the Picquet of the 16th Dragoons. The whole [is] to be under the direction of
an Officer of the day, of the Dragoons.
September
26, 1776 - June 2, 1777
[Captain
Henry Knight, Aide-de-Camp to General Howe.]
[New
York Historical Society Collection, Mss. page 99.]