While at the encampment at North Castle, John Paulding came one afternoon, to me, saying, 'Isaac, have you any objection to going with me on a scout, below?' 'No,' says I. We then started between three and four in the afternoon, with our English rifles on our shoulders? and proceeded southward. After walking a mile or so, we fell in with David Williams, and persuaded him to accompany us on our expedition. At night, we came to neighbor John Anderson's barn, at Mt. Pleasant, and slept on the hay until daybreak. We next crossed the fields to the north river post-road ; and about half past seven o'clock, we came to the widow Read's house, got some milk and a pack of playing-cards. At nine we reached the field beside the road, now the property of Mr. Wildey, three-quarters of a mile from Tarrytown. Getting over the fence, we found it filled with thick bushes", underwood, &c. We cleared a spot, and Paulding, taking out the cards, said, ' Boys we will draw cuts -- two can play, while the third stands sentry.' The cuts were made, and 1 was to stand sentinel.

"During fifteen or twenty minutes, several neighbors, whose political principles I well knew, passed the field where we were, with-

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out discovering- us -- Paulding and Williams keeping a perfect silt i and I laying down within the bushes, close to the fence. Shortlv p twenty or thirty minutes from the time of our arrival) 1 saw a liorsem ride slowly along on a black horse, the rising ground, directly oppeto where the Tarrytown academy now stands. I said to Paulding a-. Williams, 'Here's a horseman coming; we must stop him.' We got; with our firelocks ready, and waited for him to advance.