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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 58: (search)
ntal troops who might be employed in this delicate service. Colonel Nathaniel Heard of Woodbridge, New Jersey, and Colonel Waterbury of Stamford in Connecticut, were then directed, each with five or six hundred minute men, to enter Long Island, androve on under the sole guidance of his own judgment and self-will. As soon as he arrived in Connecticut, he found that Waterbury, obeying the countermand of the general congress, had disbanded his regiment; railing at congress for indecision, and cfety of that colony, while he persuaded the governor and council of Connecticut not only to reassemble the regiment of Waterbury, but to call out another under Ward. Chap. LVIII.} 1776. Jan. In this manner Lee, who had never commanded so much as owill take quiet possession of the town. Those about him chimed in with his revilings. Things will never go well, said Waterbury, unless the city of New York is crushed down by the Connecticut people; and Sears set no bounds to his contumelious abu