We then sprang over the wall to attack them with the bayonet. Althouse gave us his fire as we were on the wall, by which John Bucannan was shot through the shoulder and Nicholas Banker through the thigh. Altliouse immediately abandoned his plunder, and retreated. We were there joined by John Dean and his companions, and after a runningfight of about four miles, we succeeded in killing or taking Altliouse and all of his men, except his Guide.

During the month of April, 1778, a Regiment was raised in the counties of Dutchess and Westchester for the term of nine months, and placed under command of Col. Morris Graham, who so ordered the

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Militia on the Lines sometime in the first part of May 177S. Col. Graham also established his headquarters at the house of Joseph Youngs, and the provisions and other stores of this Regiment were kept at tinstore house of his father, the said Joseph Youngs, until some time after the battle of Monmouth, when Gen. Washington with his army arrived and e'ncamped about S miles below the White Plains. That for the time Col. Graham's Regiment was stationed at his father's, Joseph Youngs', John Dean performed the duties of Quarter Master for the said Regiment. In the month of August Geu. Washington removed the Continental Army from the County of Westchester, so that Col. Graham's Regiment was again left in charge of the Lines, and that Sergt. John Dean continued to act as Quarter Master until Christmas Eve of the year 1778, when the house was attacked by a superior force of British Refugees under command of Major Bearmore, and taken by storm. Two men were killed, and Capt. Williams and some of his men and Joseph Youngs were made prisoners, after which the remainder of the regiment which escaped returned to their homes. *