After an offer of surrender hnd been nriade by the Americans, a shot was fired from one of the windows, which, unfortunately, killed Capiain Campbell. ^ The Briiisfi, seeing their commander fall, instai]tly forced the house, and, no resistance l)eing made, revenged his death by killing upwards of twenty on the stairs and in the adjoining. rooms ; a few effected tlieir escape by jumping out of the back windows. I'he dead, who fell upon this occasion, were interred among the locusts on the west side of the road.^
The Hon. Stephen Ward, who occupied this property prior (o the Revolution, was the son of Edmund Ward,^ and grandson of Edmund W^ard, of Fairfield, Connecticut, who removed to Eastchester at a very early period. In 1700 the inhabitants of this town granted to Edmund Ward fifty acres of land, in consideration that he pay the Indians for the same. These lands were situated on the Long Reach, for the name of Edmund Ward occurs in the Long Reach Patent, granted to Wm. Peart ree and others A. D. 1708.
The Honorable Stephen Ward, above mentioned, was for many years a judge of the county, and a firm patriot throughout the Revolution. At an early period he appears to have been proscribed by the loyalist party, and a bounty set upon his head. '
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