Finding his retreat thus intercepted, he was compelled to take the Bedford road ; but hi had scarcely arrived at See's store, when he found Emmerick again drawn up to dispute the passage. Hopkins a second time discovering his retreat terminated, decided upon a vigorous charge, and succeeded in cutting his way through the detachment with the loss of a few prisoners. A running fight now ensued for about two miles, when Hopkins again found his course blockaded by Colonel W'urmb's yagers. The post road also was guarded by Pruschanck's corps, so that Hopkins had no resource left but the fields. He therefore crossed the mill creek a little north of the Dutch church, Sleepy Hollow, the whole body of the enemy joining in the pursuit. This was kept up until Hopkins arrited near the house of Job Sherwood, a short distance from the present arch of the Croton Acqueduct, on the road to Sing Sing. Hopkins now rightly judging that the best horses of his pursuers were far in advance of their comrades, instantly checked his horse, and in turn became the pursuer. At the spring brook which crosses the roid in the Beeckman wood, he succeeded in capturing one or two prisoners, in the very face of the enemy, and made good his retreat."

Near Twitchings' tavern formerly resided John Yerks, one of the seven volunteers connected with the capture of Andre. -Mr. Yerks served for several years in the capacity of a water guard, and remembered to have seen on one occasion as many as fifty British vessels and galleys stationed on the Hudson River. Near his place of residence, himself with nine others engaged in a deadly conflict with a party of twenty Cow Boys. In this skirmish they brought off three prisoners and four horses, besides leaving six of the enemy dead on the field.