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. *

The Militia residing on and near these lines, were again called out and took position at that station until the middle of January,. 1779, when Colonel Aaron Burr took command with about 500 Continental troops. A number of young men of that neighborhood enlisted to serve under him as horsemen at that time, of whom were the deponent and Sergt. John Dean. Col. Burr was succeeded in. April, 1779, by Major Wm. Hull, who was driven from those lines in June following, by a party of British Troopers under command of Col. Tarletou.

After the defeat and retreat of Hull, the Whig inhabitants of Col. Hammond's Regt. immediately formed themselves under some of the officers of said Regt. and for a time kept the plundering parties of Refugees in check, until almost all the stock was driven back into the country for safety, when the Militia also had to retire over the Croton River. That Sergt. John Dean was then in service. That the deponent was a sergeant in Baker's Company of Hammond's Regt. That in the winter of 1780 the deponent engaged to serve as one of the Guides to the Continental Troops stationed on those lines. That some time in the month of September while the deponent was a Guide to the Troops on those lines, and then under the command of Col.