Odell arose to dress, his breeches could nt 1 be found, and there were no others at hand to supply their loss. He heard that his commanding officer, Col. Sheldon, was approaching, and lie must go to meet him. The good woman of the house offered as her best substitute, one of her petticoats, which he immediately donned, mounted his horse, and so rode forth to meet Col. Sheldon ; and from that circumstance it is said, that road has eversince been known as Petticoat Lane !"

Dyckman Odell, a grandson of Col. John Odell, who still lives on the old homestead, called the Rochambeau headquarters since the allied campaign of 1781, gives the following additional data, being reminiscences from his grandfather, whom he well remembers. He says that Abraham Dyckman, who was a cousin of his grandfather, Col. John Odell, was shot in the town of Eastchester on the rise of ground in the northerly part of the village of Mt. Vernon, and not two miles east of

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that place as stated by Bolton. That after he was so wounded he v. held up on one side by John Pine, and on the other by Col. JohnOcU! and so escaped falling into the hands of the enemy. Abraham D\C man was to have been married to a sister of Cornelius Oakley, anoii:- of the Westchester Guides, but for his tragic death.

. Dyckman Odell also relates an amusing adventure of his gran ' father in which he came near being captured while on a visit to hi. sweetheart, Hannah McChain, in the fall of 1782, she being a sister G his associate guide, John McChain, and the daughter of James McChain. who lived to the south east and not far from what afterwards came to U known astheCol.