1. GW’s headquarters, which had been moved to White Plains the previous day, was located, General Heath says, “on the plain, near the cross roads” (Wilson, Heath’s Memoirs description begins Rufus Rockwell Wilson, ed. Heath’s Memoirs of the American War. 1798. Reprint. New York, 1904. description ends , 86). This headquarters apparently was at Jacob Purdy’s house on the Dobbs Ferry Road (now Spring Street) about half a mile west of the intersection of that road and the White Plains Street (now Broadway), the village’s principal north-south road (see Boatner, Landmarks description begins Mark M. Boatner III. Landmarks of the American Revolution. New York, 1975. description ends , 330, and Lederer, Place-Names of Westchester County description begins Richard M. Lederer, Jr. The Place-Names of Westchester County, New York. Harrison, N.Y., 1978. description ends , 117; see also Rösch, Historic White Plains description begins John Rösch. Historic White Plains. 1939. Reprint. Harrison, N.Y., 1976. description ends , 153–54, 156–58, 161–62, and Hufeland, Westchester County description begins Otto Hufeland. Westchester County during the American Revolution, 1775–1783. White Plains, N.Y., 1926. In Publications of the Westchester County Historical Society, vol. 3. description ends , 128–29). On 28 Oct., the day of the Battle of White Plains, GW’s headquarters was moved north about a mile and a half to the small frame farmhouse occupied by Ann Fisher Miller (c.1727–1819), widow of Elijah Miller (1728–1776) who had died on 21 Aug. from a wound received near Hell Gate while serving as a first lieutenant in Col. Samuel Drake’s regiment of New York militia levies. GW kept his headquarters at Mrs. Miller’s house until 10 Nov. (see GW to Hancock, 11 November).

2. At the end of this paragraph, “Williams’ Diary,” 49:55, adds: “30 men from each division to parade tomorrow morning at the court house properly officered to take orders from Lt. Delaware [Lt. Col. Francis Ware?] the same number of fatigue men to parade in the same places tomorrow as this morning.”

3. The issuance of this order may have been prompted by a recent friendly fire incident involving two American scouting parties. A detachment of scouts from Lt. Col. Daniel Brodhead’s Pennsylvania rifle battalions which returned to White Plains early this morning reported capturing thirty-four Loyalists and one regular soldier and killing fourteen of the enemy near the British lines. Unfortunately, the riflemen also mistook some of “the Delaware Blues for the enemy,” and six riflemen and nine of Col. John Haslet’s Delaware “Blues” were killed in the ensuing firefight between the two friendly parties (see “McMichael’s Diary,” description begins William P. McMichael. “Diary of Lieutenant James McMichael, of the Pennsylvania Line, 1776–1778.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 16 (1892): 129–59. description ends 137). For GW’s involvement in a similar friendly fire incident near Loyalhanna, Pa., in November 1758, see Orderly Book, 12 Nov. 1758, n.1.