She received the ball in her bosom, and instantly expired.] From the Farms, Knyphausen proceeded to Springfield.

The Jersey brigade, commanded by General Maxwell, and the militia of the adjacent country, took an advantageous position at that place, and seemed determined to defend it.

Knyphausen halted in its neighbourhood, and remained on his ground until night.
Having received intelligence of this movement, General Washington put his army in motion early in the same morning that Knyphausen marched from Elizabethtown Point, and advanced to the Short Hills, in the rear of Springfield, while the British were in the neighbourhood of that place.

Dispositions were made for an engagement the next morning, but Knyphausen retired in the night to the place of his disembarkation.
General Washington continued on the hills near Springfield, too weak to hazard an engagement, but on ground chosen by himself.

His continental troops did not exceed three thousand men.