The only regiment left in Flatbush after the battle, was 42d Regiment of Highlanders. They however soon removed, and were succeeded by a guard of fifty men under Lieut. Dalrymple. These continued for some time, when upon their removal, Col. Axtell, who resided in the house now owned by Mr. Mowatt, and who was a violent Tory, collected a company called the Nassau Blues. The command of this was committed to his nephew Capt. Depeyster. They appear to have been taken from the lowest ranks, and were mostly persons of bad moral character. Col. Axtell wished that they should be united with the militia of the town, but the militia opposed it, and would by no means give their consent to such a measure. These Nassau Blues, from their low and generally miserable appearance, were nicknamed by the inhabitants the "Nasty Blues." They were not billetted upon the town, but had possession chiefly of the court-house. Of so bad a character were they, that in their blasphemy, they called themselves "the Holy Ghosters."

fter the return of the inhabitants of Flatbush to their houses, in the fall of 1776, an epidemic broke out among them, arising as was supposed from the effluvia connected with the Hessian and British encampment, and which in consequence was called the camp-fever. It seized great numbers, and proved fatal to many; and among others, to some of the most respectable and influential persons in the town.

We should he glad to furnish a list of all the American prisoners who were billetted in Flatbush during the war, particularly the names of the officers, but this is impossible. Among the latter were Gen. Silliman, Col. Rawlings, Col. Magaw, Col. Miles, Col. Atlee, Col. (afterwards Gen.) Williams, Col. Barby, Capts. Fitzhugh Randolph, Bailey, Biles, Patton, the subsequent Postmaster of Philadelphia, and a number of others. But we cannot forbear a special notice of Major David Lenox. He was billetted upon Mr. Bateman Lloyd. During his residence as a prisoner, he was visited by his brothers Robert and William, with a view to bring him to abandon the American cause. They tried every motive, and pressed him by considerations the most tender. The interview was had under the large linden-tree near the house. On their leaving him, he was met by the present Mrs. Lloyd, who observing him to be bathed in tears, asked what was the cause of his distress. He told her that his brothers had been endeavoring to prevail with him to forsake the Americans and join the British. But said he with Roman firmness, "I will never do it."

The circumstances which led to the removal of Major Lenox from Flatbush, show his noble daring and firmness, and at the same time the spirit of oppression which distinguished the officers of the British army. The news of the capture of Burgoyne in 1777, having reached the American prisoners paroled on Long-Island, Major James Hamilton and Dr. Stewart repaired to Flatbush to celebrate together with Major Lenox an event so propitious to the cause of their country, and so congenial to their best hopes and most sanguine wishes. The night was passed at the festive board, but their conduct was in no way calculated to offend; no extravagant symptom of exultation was shown, for boistering mirth would have degraded a feeling of delight, silent but sincere. In the morning, a fish-car filled with shad, passing through the village, Major Lenox asked the proprietor if he would sell a part of his load: "not to