310 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1777. 



In the midst of the attack on the right, that hody of the enemy 

 that remained on the other side of Chad's ford, crossed it and 

 attacked the division there under the command of General 

 Waj'ne, and the light troops under General Maxwell ; who after 

 a severe conflict, also retired. The Militia under the command 

 of General Armstrong, being posted at a ford about two miles 

 below Chad's, had no opportunity of engaging. 



"But though we fought under many disadvantages, and were 

 from the cause above mentioned, obliged to retire, yet our loss 

 of men is not, I am persuaded, very considerable ; I believe 

 much less than the enemy's. We have also lost seven or eight 

 pieces of cannon according to the best information I can at 

 present obtain. — The baggage having been previously moved 

 off" is all secure ; saving the men's blankets, which being at 

 their backs, many of them doubtless are lost : 



"I have directed all the troops to assemble behind Chester, 

 where they are now arranging for the night. — Notwithstanding 

 the misfortunes of the day, I am happy to find the troops in 

 good spirits; and I hope another time we shall compensate for 

 the losses now sustained. 



" The Marquis La Fayette was wounded in the leg, and 

 General Woodford in the hand. Divers other officers were 

 wounded and some slain, but the numbers of either cannot now 

 be ascertained. " G. Washington. 



" P. S. It has not been in my power to send you earlier in- 

 telligence ; the present being the first leisure moment I have 

 since the engagement." 



On the next day, the American army marched through Darby 

 to Philadelphia, where it was probably joined by straggling 

 parties who had not reached Chester : one of these, accom- 

 panied by a wagon load of the wounded, with a surgeon, reached 

 Gibbons' tavern in Springfield about ten o'clock on the night of 

 the battle. Here their wounds were dressed and their Avants 

 supplied with everything the house could affbrd. They left 

 early in the morning, for fear of being overtaken by the enemy. ^ 



While the American army was stationed on the Brandywine, 

 Washington occupied the dwelling of Benjamin Ring, a mile 

 from Chadds' Ford, as his headquarters. This house is now 

 owned and occupied by Joseph Harvey, and has undergone 

 some modifications since it was occupied by the " father of his 

 country." The annexed lithograph represents the appearance 

 the building then presented, as nearly as those who had been 

 acquainted with it could convey the same to the artist, with the 

 exception that it then had what is called a hipped roof. 



' Related hy Mary Ash, aged 96 years, now deceased. 



