Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Battle of Harlem Heights, September 16, 1776; Read Before the New York Historical Society: February 5, 1878; With a Preface and Notes
I had then before me the carefully prepared accounts of Mr. Dawson, Mr. Lossing, Mr. Jay, Mr. Johnston, Mrs. Lamb and Mr. Stevens, besides my own, no two of them agreeing, except Mrs. Lamb's and my own, which, to my surprise, proved to be coincident in many parts, both in substance and in language. That coincidence happened as', follows Soon after the celebration, in a conversation with Mrs. Lamb, I ex pressed my views of the evidence as afterwards set forth in my paper, from which she expressed a prompt, positive and earnest dissent. I then dropped the subject with her, and went on with my inquiries.
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