On this day 250 years ago in the hills around White Plains, New York, the Continental Army and American militia were on edge expecting a continuation of yesterday’s assault by the British and Hessians. Sgt. James McMichael of the Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment recorded in his diary that

We received an Express at 6 oClock A.M. that the Enemy were all round our Encampment which ocasioned us to get under Arms and march to a proper Eminence to view their motion but found the allarm false.

Although the British did not attack the American positions, there was more than false alarms that day. Capt. Peter Kimball of Stickney’s New Hampshire militia regiment reported:

The enemy appeared all round on every hill the riflemen firing on their guards. One of the riflemen killed this day and at night our guard was alarmed. Another fired and killed Captain Buntin

Captain Buntin was Capt. Andrew Buntin of the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment but I could not identify the name of the American rifleman killed that day. The British also had at least one soldier wounded in the skirmishing.

Sources: https://allthingsliberty.com/2018/02/james-mcmichael-journal-may-27-1776-october-29-1776/; https://miniawi.blogspot.com/2011/10/october-29-1776.html