Yermilier, and he, the said Col., also desired the aforesaid man to warn all they came across and that they should influence others to do the same ; that the said Col. informed the deponent that he was under the necessity of ordering the people to meet at his house, as he had the amunition there ; that Capt. Requaw was sufficiently warned, being in a field from which he could see the vessels as they came up. That the deponent parted with the said Colonel about two miles from the river, where the road strikes off to Capt. Vermilier's. That the said Col. went toward the said Captain's and the deponent to the River at Tarrytown. That about 10

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o'clock the deponent returned to the said Colonel's and was told that he had not returned since he set out with the said deponent and that the deponent believes that the said Colonel was active in collecting his men, and further saith not. Captain Benjamin Yermilier, being sworn, deposeth and saith that on the evening of the 12th inst. Col. Hamman came'to his house earlv in the evening and gave him orders to warn the men as fast as he could. After the said depon't had warned his Corporal to acquaint the Sergeant to come down to Tarry town the deponent went to Mr. VanTassel's and found the Col. there. That scarcely an hour after the deponent with the Col. went down to the River, but the hour of the night he could not tell, as he had no watch. Peter Allair, clerk to Col. Hamman's regiment, being sworn, deposeth and saith : That Col. Hamman's son-in-law about 9 o'clock warned him to turn out on the alarm. That he went to alarm some men, then returned to the Col. and charged all the guns there.