ADVERTISEMENT.

In the course of the year there will, probably, be published a second volume, entitled, the Revolutionary Incidents of Suffolk and Kings Counties, with an extended account of the Battle of Brooklyn, the prison 'ships at the Walleboght, the whale boat warfare, and the illicit trade in Long Island Sound. Any information will be thankfully received and duly acknowledged.

INTENDED TO ILLUSTRATE

THE

REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENTS

OF

QUEENS COUNTY;

WITH

CONNECTING NARRATIVES, EXPLANATORY
NOTES, AND ADDITIONS.

BY

HENRY ONDERDONK, JR.

Posterity delights in details."-J. Q. ADAMS.

NEW-YORK:

LEAVITT, TROW AND COMPANY,

194 BROADWAY.

TO THE

INHABITANTS OF QUEENS COUNTY,

DESCENDANTS OF THOSE WHO LIVED HERE DURING THE STORMY PERIOD OF

THE REVOLUTION,

THIS ATTEMPT TO RESCUE FROM OBLIVION

THE HISTORY OF THE OPINIONS, DEEDS, AND SUFFERINGS,

OF OUR COMMON ANCESTRY,

Es respectfully Enscribed,

BY THEIR

FELLOW.CITIZEN.