" A gentleman volunteer, by name Requaw, (Daniel) received a dangerous wound and was carried into the British lines ; I was requested by his brother to visit him, under the sanction of a flag of truce, in company with Dr. White, who resides in this vicinity. This invitation I cheerfully accepted : and Mr. Requaw (probably James Requaw,) having obtained a flag from the proper authority and procured horses, we set off in the morning, arrived .at Westchester before evening, and dressed the wounded man. We passed the night at Mrs. Bartow's, mother-in-law of Dr. W. She has remained at her farm between the lines during the war, and being friendly to our interest, has received much abusive treatment from the royalists.

The next day we visited our patient again, paid the necessary attention and repaired to a tavern, where 1 was gratified with an interview with the much fanied Colonel De Lancey, who commands the Refugee Corps. He conducted with much civility, and having a public dinner prepared, at the tavern, he invited us to dine with him and his officers. After dinner, Colonel De Lancey furnished us with a permit to return with our flag ; we rode ten miles, and took lodgings in a private house. Here we were informed that six of our men, having taken from the refugees thirty head of cattle were overtaken by forty of De Lancey's corps and were all killed bu.t one, and the cattle, re taken. In the morning breakfasted with a friendly Quaker family, in whose house was one of our men who had been wounded when four others were killed ; we dressed his wounds, which were numerous and dangerous. In another house we saw four dead bodies, mangled in a most inhuman man-ner by the refugees, and among them, one groaning under five wounds on his head, two of them quite through the skull bone with a broad-sword.