Throwing a blanket over his head he came down stairs and sprang over tin* lower half of the hall door and ran rapidly to the Saw Mill River, pursued by the enemy, who gave up the chase when they found that he had broken his way through the ice, in order to escape to the Karen Ilott, the picket station on Beaver Mountain. Cornelius, Jr., died Jan. 3, 1780, as the result of his exposure at the time of his father's capture. While the dwelling waS burning one of the soldiers actuated with praiseworthy feelings of humanity obtained a feather bed and threw it over the mother and child, who were then left to care for themselves as best they could. They afterward found temporary shelter in a dirt cellar, the only habitation left upon the farm.

Capt. John Romer gives the following account of the affair, date of 1845: "The night on which the houses were, surprised and burnt was one of the coldest of the season. Cornelius Van Tassel on the fn t alarm sprang from the windows and tried to escape, being almost naked. He was taken, but never recovered from the exposure of that night. The Tory Captain, Joshua Ikirncs, acted as guide for Kmeriel: that night, and his voice was heard above the tumult. : 'The houses

are both owned by d d Rebels -- burn them!' My wife, l,cah Van

Tassel, was the only daughter of Cornelius, and she was the infant taken out of the house in a blanket by a soldier, laid carefully in the snow and the mother, distracted, was seeking her babe when be told her where the child was. The only son, Cornelius, Jr., fled for safety half naked to the roof of the house and held on by the chimney, from