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John Glover was a wealthy merchant and shipowner in Marblehead, MA, prior to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. A leading member of the Marblehead committee of correspondence, in 1775 he formed a local militia to defend the area. Made up of sailing men, his unit also trained as infantrymen and later became known as the "amphibious regiment." Soon after taking formal command of the Continental Army on July 3, 1775, General George Washington placed Glover in command of equipping and manning armed merchant ships for the defense of the colonies, thus forming our first deep water force, known as "George Washington's Navy." Following the British evacuation of Boston March 17, 1776, Glover was ordered to New York to assist the troops on Long Island.

After the Battle of Harlem Heights on September 16, 1776, Washington's beleagured army marches through Westchester. The 13,000 men of the Continental army began to move north of New York City towards White Plains. On October 12,1776, the British Commander, Lord Percy, landed ships of British soldiers at Throggs Neck on the Long Island Sound. Knyphausen's Hessians soon joined Percy's men, which included the Fourth and Sixteenth of Foot.

Colonel Glover, acting as a Brigadier, and his brigade of four "skeleton companies," included Glover's Regiment, the 13th; Shepard's (late Learned's), the 3d; and Loammi Baldwin's, the 26th. The whole comprised only 843 men, all from Massachusetts. The British and Hessian forces combined were estimated at around 4,000, outnumbering the Colonial forces nearly 5 to 1.

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