Dutch Church Prison, New York, in the autumn of 1776, and soon afu: the battle of White Plains, as related by his son, Col. John Odell, in histatement published herewith. In the later days, after the Revolution, it said by those who remember him, that he presented a picturesque appearance as he drove up the road in his gig to attend the Sabbathday 'services at the old Dutch Church, where he worshipped. He possessed a large lauded estate, 563 acres, extending from the Hudson River to the vSaw Mill River. Pie was indeed an interesting historic character, and was popularly known as the father of all of the Odells.

The old Odell Inn at Abbotsford, erected by Captain John Harmse, probably as early as 1693, is noted as having been honored

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with the holding of a session of the Provincial Congress (the N. Y. State Convention as it was also called) there, as the records show, on Aug. 31, 1776, on which occasion an address was made out and forwarded to Washington who was then with the army at New York. It is said that 011 occasion when the Hessians made a raid on the Odell premises they hung up a faithful slave Ccesar three several times so as to make him tell where the pork was secreted, but he would not, and at last they left him hanging until some one cut him down as soon as they were gone.

Ol the capture of Jonathan Odell, his grandson, Jackson Odell says: "My grandfather was made prisoner after the battle of White