And your memorialist further shows, that his commission as Lieutenant, and also tire certificates showing his having entered the service as a Horse Guard, and stating the nature of such service, havebeen lost or destroyed; and your memorialist therefore respectfidh refers to the accompanying document, which he trusts will satisfactorily show that the statements made by him in relation to the periods and nature of the service performed by him, for his country are correct : and he also trusts that it will appear from thtse documents, that at times when the country needed the services of all of its citizens, he embarked with zeal in the cause of his country.

And your memorialist respectfully shows, and states, &c.

John Odell."

In this connection it may well be stated that when Orderly Sergt. Sybert Acker called for volunteers on the Parade Ground at Tarrytown, John Odell was the first one to step out to the front and right in the presence of the Tory Colonel Delancey.

The following is an account of an exciting adventure in which "Col." John Odell once came near being captured :

During the winter of 17S2, Capt. Daniel Williams, of the New York levies (stationed on the lines), having just returned from an excursion to Morrisania, was surprised by a party of the enemy's horse, in a barn near the King's Ferry House. George McChain, who behaved with the utmost gallantry on this occasion, was killed ; the rest of the party effected their escape on the ice. David Merritt of Cortlandtown, Oct. 12II1, 1845, says: "When the Refugees surprised Williams' post, at Orser's, a part of them went north and cut off ye retreat, driving Col. John Post, the guide and others upon ye ice, when Odell (Col. John Odell of the Westchester Guides) fought with two and escaped." It is said that he severely wounded one of his pursuers on the right by a heavy back stroke of his good sword, and also wounded the other on the left.