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. Jameson, whose headquarters were at a place called Mile Square in said County of Westchester, that about the 23d day of Sept., 1780, the deponent wrell recollects that the said John Dean, Isaac Van Wart, David Williams, John Paulding, James Romer, Abraham Williams, John Yerks and Isaac Seei

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arrived at the quarters of Col. Jameson, bringing with them a prisoner who said his name was John Anderson, together with a number of papers concealed in the boot of the prisoner at the time he was taken, and that a few days afterwards ii was discovered that the prisoner was Major Joljn Andre, Adjutant Gen'l. of the British Army, &e.

The above statement is dated June i, 1837.