, There was a spring of water nearly opposite Youngs', on the east side of and in the road, where many of the wounded crawled for water and died. The late Rev. Alexander Van Wart, son of Isaac, one of the captors, who afterwards owned the Youngs place, described the somewhat elevated sandy field just north of the Corners, on the east side of the Unionville road, as the place where some thirteen Americans and three British soldiers who fell in that fight were buried ; "and," he added, "I have ploughed many a furrow over their graves."

When the Youngs House was raided on Christmas night, 1778, John Champenois, a Tory prisoner, was sitting before the fire in custody of a negro whom Caleb Paulding ha'd employed to guard him. Champenois, it is said, had been plundering the patriots to such an extent that the party which under command of Capt. Daniel Williams had been down to Morrisania the night before had been gotten up in large part to capture him, in which it had succeeded. He had boasted that Bearmore would come to the rescue of himself and his fellow prisoners, and at the first noise outside exclaimed "The Major has come ! " A moment after some of the inmates opened one of the front windows to see what was the matter, when, in an instant, several shots were fired in from without, one of which killed Champenois dead. At the time he was struggling with the sentinel who guarded him, when the fatal shot pierced his heart and he dropped dead into the fire. After the capture of the place, which was taken by surprise and made but little resistance, Bearmore set fire to one of Youngs' barns, retook the prisoners whom Capt. Williams had captured the night before, assembled the American prisoners he had made, including Joseph Youngs and Capt.