The enemy were !ar advanced up the Saw Mill valley, ere they relinquished the pursuit. 0:i this occasion Abraham Dyckman arrested Captain Ogden in Coloml Emmerick's quarter's (the house noAV standing at the foot of the steep hill, on the road leading from Fordham to Kings Bridge, close by v/hat is knowTi as Farmer's Bridge, was the scene of the exploit) at the moment when a British sentinel was pacing the bridge within musket shot.

"On the 19th of Januar}', 17S1, (says General Heath,) 150 men from the Connecticut line and 200 from the New Hampshire line were to move towards the lines; these, with those who marched from Hazen's the day before, were to form a covering party to the detachment under Lieutenant Colonel Hull, who was to make an attempt on De Lancey's corps."'^

The result of the enterprise, (which took place upon the 2Sth of January, 1781,) is thus related by Thacher: --

"A detachment, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Hull. has returned from a successful expedition, having attacked by surprise the Koyal Refugee corps under the command of the noted Colonel De Lancey, posted at Morrisania. Colonel Hull has for several months past sustained the command of a detachment of our troops posted in advance of our army, a situation requiring the most active \-igilance and precaution, to guard against surprise and stratagem. In this station, as in many others, this oiticer has e\'inred his military skill and judgment. He has executed an enterprize with such address and gallantry as to merit for himself and his detachment the highest honor. He bravely forced a narrow passage to tiie enemy, and besides a number being killed, he took upwards of fifty prisoners, cut away the bridge,^ burnt their huts and a considerable quantity of forage, and brought off a number of horses and cattle.