He remembered how his father was taken prisoner during one of the forays of the enemy to the northward. He had stoutly resisted but was finally overpowered by a blow from a saber which made an ugly and nearly fatal cut in his head. He was then taken to New

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York and confined in the Old .Sugar House Prison (as stated in If application fora pension), where he with other Patriots were obliged in live on the horse flesh that was doled out to them.

The following is copied from his application for a pension on fde at Washington :

' "Jacob Acker of the town of Greenburgh, and County of Wee.. Chester, being duly sworn, says that he was a private in Capt. Geo. Comb's Company, in Col. Jas. Hammond's Regt. ; that he was detached on the 2d day of March, 1782, under Capt. Israel Honeywell, as a scout in a reconuo.itering party to examine the lines of the British troops then at Morrisiauia, and that on their return, he and others under the command of Ensign Thos. Boyce, on the 3d of March, in the town of Newcastle, were attacked by a part\ of British Dragoons, and that during the attack he received a severe wound from the sword of a British soldier, on the head, from the top sloping toward the left side, and that he was taken prisoner by the enemy and carried off to the Hospital at New York, where he was kept for about 4 mouths."