His war reminiscences, it is curious to note, were rarely related except to his immediate family circle.

STATEMENT BY LIEUT. SAMUEL YOUNGS.

The following statement made by Samuel Youngs, Esq., endorsing the application of Mary Dean, widow of Sergt. John Dean, for a Pension, is herewith given entire, as covering in nearly full detail the various periods of general enlistment and mustering into service of the Militia of the Manor, as well as giving a vivid description of some scenes in which he was an active participant :

That in the summer of 1775. John Dean lived at the house of his father, Joseph Youngs ; that he enlisted in Lieut. Isaac Van Wart's Co. in Col. Holmes Regt. and that after the Company was completed they embarked on board of vessels at Tarrytown, and sailed to the northward ; that he was present at the embarkation when they so went to reinforce Gen. Montgomery in the expedition against St. John's in Canada. That in the month of December, 1776, all the Continental troops having been withdrawn from what was then established as the American lines, which was from Tarrytown on the Hudson River eastwardly by the way of the house of Joseph Youngs and the White Plains

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to the East River, the inhabitants residing on these lines were left exposed to the plundering parties of the British Refugees, who with some British troops held possession of the southern part of the count}'. The Committee of Public Safety ordered out the Militia of that part of the county who belonged to Col. Hammond's Regiment, who were accordingly stationed, some of them at the house of said Joseph Youngs, on the Tuckahoe Road, and some of them at the houses of Peter Van Tassel and Cornelius Van Tassel on the Saw Mill River Road; that about 120 of Col.