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. John Odell place, and where Dyckman Odell at present

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resides. It appears that his presence there had come to the knowledge of some of the Tories of that neighborhood, who accordingly planned his capture. But Hannah was on the alert, and suspecting the purpose of a party that she saw approaching, she quickly secreted her lover m the garret, he climbing up and lying prone upon a plank under the roof. The Tories soon made their appearance, and searched the house, though fortunately did not succeed in finding him. The following year, peace having been declared, they were married and there resided until 1785.

John Odell received His title of Colonel from a commission bearing the signature of Gov. John Jay, dated March 15, 1797, naming him as Dieut.-Col. Commandant of a Regiment of Westchester County

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Militia, having previously, in 1786, been commissioned as Captain by Gov. George Clinton. He was over six feet in stature and every way a stalwart man, of splendid physique. He was twice married. By his first wife, Hannah McChain, he had a daughter who married Bishop Underhill and was so the grandmother of Edgar Underhill, Esq., of New York.