They secured him by tying his legs under the horse he rode. He tried to prevail upon several of the other prisoners during the march to untie the ropes, saying he could escape almost anywhere by jumping from his horse and taking to the woods. There were fifteen of us taken prisoners. We were taken first to Morrisania and then to the island opposite Randall's, and then to New York, where we were confined in the Provost Jail. Paulding, however, in consequence of the celebrity he had acquired as one of the captors of Andre, was not confined, but was entertained by the British officers, messing and living with the Captains and Lieutenants. We were detained as prisoners till the 27th or 28th of April."

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John Romer, in an interview of the date of Sept. 16, 1845, gives the following account of the engagement between a small detachment of Right Horse under Capt. Hopkins, with a much larger force of British Tories commanded by Col. Emerick : "Near the end of July,

1779, Capt. Hopkins with a detachment of Moylan's and Sheldon's, lay in the neighborhood of Young's House; in a wood in ambush about three-quarters of a mile west of the place, on the south side of. the road between Youngs' and Hammond's. He was lying in ambuscade for Bearmore, who was not out there, but Col. Emerick had marched from below with a strong party, and was endeavoring to draw this detachment of Moylan's within his reach. Emerick's party was nearly 500 strong, and was moving to waylay all the roads. Hopkins, ignorant of all this, had gone down a by-road leading past Avery's (Rieut. Thaddcus') house and mill and which came out near the Youngs House.