...house. They went to the perilous duties of the day, with seriousness and acknowledgment of God, as though they were to be engaged in acts of worship. The minute company of Lincoln, and a few from Acton , pressed in at an early hour; but the British, as they approached, were seen to be four times as numerous as the Americans. The latter, therefore, retreated, first to an eminence eighty rods furthe...