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Souvenir of the Revolutionary Soldiers' Monument Dedication at Tarrytown

Raymond, Marcius D., editor and publisher. Souvenir of the Revolutionary Soldiers' Monument Dedication, at Tarrytown, N.Y., October 19th, 1894. Tarrytown, NY, 1894. 302 words

Thomas Thomas' Regiment ; that lie e- y tinned there with that Company until the British had taken New Y< : ■ and Tort Independence was evacuated, and then retreated from them to White Plains, where they were stationed a little to the north of th. ■ place and on the west side of Morton's Mill Pond, and continued them until after the battle of White Plains ; that the Regiment was then ordered to Pine's Bridge, and from thence to Peekskill, and that afnthe greater part of Washington's army had crossed the North Rivt : their Regiment was ordered to Sing Sing, and continued there until tin expiration of their term of enlistment. That in the beginning of December,1776, the American troops having been withdrawn from thevieiniu of Tarry town, the Whig inhabitants were exposed to the plunderin', depredations of the enemy. Afterwards served with about sixty otherof the inhabitants at the houses of Peter and Cornelius Van Tassel cm the Saw Mill River Road under Captain Sybert Acker. Also under Captain Daniel Williams, Lieut. Abraham Van Wart, and Lieut. Heddy. in 1778, at Young's House, and vicinity. Then was in a foot Company commanded by Lieut. Richard Peacock. That the said Abraham Requa was one of the Company of volunteers who made an attack on the Refugees at Morrisauia in March, 1782, when they captured .1 Lieutenant and some thirty prisoners; that they were pursued in thenretreat about twenty-eight miles, and lost eight or ten men in killed and wounded; that Abraham Dyekman, one of the most brave and uselu! men among the Westchester Guides was mortally wounded during their said retreat, though they brought off all of their prisoners and a number of horses taken from the Refugees. Was born on Philipse Manor, in the present town of hit.