One man of the Legion cavalry was killed, and one of them, and two of the hussars, wounded."^

The scene of this conflict lies on the land of the late Frederick Brown, now occupied by his widow. The struggle commenced in the 2d field west of Brown's house, tind close by the

a See Simcoe's Military Journal, published by Bartlett & Welford, N. Y., to which work we refer our readers for an engraved plan of the above mentioned action.

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present road leading to Devaiix's. The opening in the Cortlandt woods still goes hy the name of Indian field. Here the dead were buried. The Indians according lo the British account led down the ridge across the present acquednct, to what is called Indian bridge ; which then, as now, crossed Tippetts brook. On gaining the western bank, they secreted themselves amid the rocks and bushes; here the cavalry pursued them ; but being unable to scale the rocks, called upon the fugitives to surrender ; promising them as a condition for so doing, life and protection. Upon tliis, three ventured to throw themselves upon the mercy of the British soldier, and were immediately drawn out by the bridge and cut to pieces. Notwithstanding the strictest search that could be made for the remainder, four managed to escape to the American lines beyond the Croton. Oneof these survivors by the name of Job, lived to a good old age ; gaining his livelihood by fishing on the banks of the Hudson ; but whenever he could be tempted to relate the horrors of that day, the big tears would start in his eyes and he would sob like a child. Nimham the Indian chief fell as related by the hand of Wright, Simcoe's orderly huzzar, in the swamp between Jesse Halstead's house and John and Frederick Devaux's, now the Mankin property.