This was at Pawling, Dutchess County, and, fearing to a VV hig of the the vengeance of Captain Townsend, he arranged with Colonel Morehouse, When their rendezvous was neighborhood, to raise a body of volunteers and capture them. out from under a surrounded, Crosby, he having again made a false enlistment, was dragged so much injured that he bed, where he had taken refuge, and complained that his leg was and, of course, he soon could not walk. The accommodating colonel took him on his horse, got away. safety, but at last the For three years Crosby continued in the employ of the committee of , fixed suspicion upon Tories, marveling much at the detection of their covert undertakings and beat him Highlands, the in aw him A band traced him to the house of his brother-in-l who pursued them until they left him for dead. They were followed by a company of Whigs into the stream. It was to the Croton River, where some were killed and others driven usefulness as a spy months before Crosby recovered, and it was then plain that his days of

and was appointed a subwere past. He ioined Captain Philip Van Cortlandt's company, boats ordinate officer. ' While on duty at Teller's Point, in the spring of 1780, he decoyed adressed on the beach a soldier crew from a British ship in the stream to the shore by parading the In all them captured and them for in Lafayette's uniform. He had his ambuscade set His whole pay from the following; fall his enlistment expired and he retired to private life. any remuneration he received government was but two hundred and fifty dollars, so that 1/81, m partnership from the committee of safety must have been very little. In October, acres of the forfeited with his brother Benjamin, he bought three hundred and seventy-nine by the Croton covered now Roger Morris estate, near Brewster's.