I found there were twenty-eight in the company, and after they had left, I went to the neighbors and collected as many together as I could, and we followed on with our guns, firing upon them and alarming the inhabitants, saying, "Come on my boys ! -- there are but twenty-eight of them ; we will have them," etc. We followed them down the Saw mill river road, until we had collected a large company, who kept up a continual firing. The cow thieves scattered around and about three-fourths of a mile north of the Greenburgh Church, the last man was shot in John Buckhout's orchard. We had shot or taken all prisoners but one, their guide, by the name of

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Hasted, who was the only man who escaped. We returned with our prisoners and the cattle to the headcpiarters (Jameson's, in North castle, i and delivered them up, while the cattle were claimed by their rightful owners.

ATTACK UPON A BRITISH SI.OOP OF WAR.

'In those times men were always on the alert and ready to find out every thing that was going on here between the lines ; and being at Tarrytown one day in company with one Jacob Acker, there was observed a British vessel lying a short distance south of Tarrytown. We had information that they sent a boat ashore every morning to get butter and eggs from a small grocery near the river. Acker and myself thought we would put a stop to that ; so we with our guns in hand, one morning secreted ourselves in the bushes, on the bank of the Hudson River. It was not long before a barge put off from the vessel, with an officer in the stern, rowing for shore ; when they got near enough we discharged our guns into the barge.