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moved forward with the 1st division from Crosswick towards Allens- 
town, thereby covering the left flank of Lieutenant-General Kny¬ 
phausen’s column. 
June 25th .—'The whole army continued their route, Lieutenant- 
General Knyphausen’s division moviug off their ground near Emelyas 
Town at 4 o’clock in the morning, General Clinton’s column with 
Brigadier-General Leslie’s corps filing off to their right and falling 
into the rear of Knyphausen’s division. The army had now advanced 
so far into Jersey that there was more reason to expect the enemy in our 
rear than in frout; some alteration was therefore made in the disposi¬ 
tion of General Clinton’s column, the guards, grenadiers, and light infan¬ 
try forming therear of thecolumn instead of the front. The wholehalted 
from 12 to 3 o’clock in order to refresh the men and horses and then 
proceeded, Lieutenant-General Knyphauseu to Thompson’s meeting 
house and General Clinton to the Rising Sun. The roads through 
which the army marched this day were remarkably bad. 
June 26th .—The army was again putin motion, Lieutenant-General 
Knyphausen’s division still continuing in front, moved at 4 o’clock in 
the morning, and the rear division under Clinton and Lord Cornwallis 
at 6 o’clock. The first division reached Freehold between 9 and 10 
o’clock, and encamped with their right extending about a mile and a 
half beyond Monmouth Court House on the road to Shrewsbury 
and Middleton, and covered by the skirt of a small wood, fl’he division 
under General Clinton took up their ground about two miles on the 
other side of the Court House, with their right towards the Court 
House and their left to a thick wood and a morass running towards 
their rear, the front of the whole covered by a wood and towards the 
left by a morass. The first part of this day’s march was through a 
close and unsettled country, the latter through one more settled and 
open, the village of Freehold standing on an extensive plain. 
June 27th .—The army halted this day. Many straggling parties 
of the enemy, both horse and foot, were seen hovering about, and some 
of the King’s troops were picked up by venturing too far beyond the 
advanced pickets. The greater part of the village of Freehold was 
abandoned, but some stands of arms were found, supposed to belong 
to the militia. 
June 28th {Sunday ).—The army marched in two columns, the left 
division led by General Clinton taking the high road from Freehold 
to Middleton, and the right under Lieutenant-General Knyphauseu, 
having with it the whole of the baggage of the army, marched 
through a close woody country for several miles without the least 
molestation or annoyance from the enemy until about 12 o’clock, when 
a party of 15 or 16 of their militia, taking the advantage of our flank¬ 
ing parties being too widely dispersed, broke through the provision 
train and wounded two or three men and as many horses, without 
halting at all, and another party of about 40 or 50 made an attempt 
upon the baggage, but went off again upon the appearance of two 
companies of the 40th regiment, which composed part of the rear 
guard. Upon the alarm being given in front, the 10th and 49th regi- 
