The opening of the new year -- the exact date does not appear, if it was ever definitely known -- witnessed a transaction by which the lower portion of the County of Westchester, especially the Towns of Mamaroneck, Eastchester, Westchester, and Yonkers, was greatly disturbed ; and yet it was an occurrence
rested in connection with spiking of the Cannon, near Kingsbridge, of which more will be seen, hereafter, (pages 147, 148, pott.)
5 Doctor Azor Belts, Godfrey Haines, William LounBberry, Joshua Gedney, Joseph Purdy, Joshua Burrell, and Thomas Haines were among those who were manacled and otherwise treated with great inhumanity.
«See pages 112, 113, 114, 123, ante.
7 Colonel Samuel Drake to the Provincial Congress, "New- York, Feby. "16, 1776;" Journal of the Provincial Congress, "Die Veneris, 3 ho., " P.M., Feb. 16, 1776 ; " the same, "Die Sabbati, 10 ho., A.M., Feb. 17, "1776 ;" the same, "Die VeneriB, 10 ho., A.M., Feby. 23, 1776."
Colonel Waterbury, who accompanied General Lee, through Westchester-county, acknowledged his possession of thirty Guns, two pairs of Holsters, nine Cutlasses, and three Pistols -- how many more he had seized, and retained or sent back into Connecticut, are now unknown ; and no record was taken of the names of those who had been thug plundered. They must have been taken, however, on the line of march of his Regiment, between the Sawpits and Eingsbridge ; and there was not the slightest shadow of even revolutionary authority for the seizure, except the law of the stronger and that of thieves.