" He then remarked that this declarant was "an active enemy of the British," and asked him if he would not like a parole? to which Lieutenant Requa replied, " Well !" " \\ hereupon he gave me my parole," and soon after Governor Clinton secured his exchange and called him into active service, by ordering him to muster the northern troops at Albany, and afterwards he was ordered to take command of a Company at Tappan, where he was under General Washington's command for some time ; from thence was sent to the northward to Albany and the Mohawk River and stationed at Fort Plain, at the time when Butler and Brandt and the British and Indians defeated Colonel Brown and killed him and a number of his men; whereon the same day reinforcements under General Tenbroeck arriving, the enemy were attacked and a number of them killed and* they routed.

The declarant belonged to Colonel Malcolm's Regiment, but was in the action under the command of Colonel Dubois, which engagement took place in October, 1780. If he remembered rightly, his Company took 39 prisoners whom they lodged in the Poughkeepsie jail. He discharged his Company at King's Ferry, and the next day there was a severe snow storm, in which he traveled home to his father's. This declarant had the command of the American Light Horse when the British headquarters were surprised and their Commander, Major Bearmore, taken prisoner with 19 of his men ; he was the first that entered the house and ordered them to surrender. This declarant had one brother, Daniel, killed, three brothers wounded and taken prisoners, and five brothers of them were in action together at one time; his father's house, a new one, was burnt to ashes, and he (the father) being a Justice of the Peace and a Committeeman, it was said that a liberal reward was offered for his capture, but he escaped.