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 this, three vertured to throw themselves upon the mercy of the British soldier, and were immediately cbav.n out by the bridge and cut to pieces. Notwthstanding the strictest search that could be made for the remainder, four managed to escape to the American lines beyond the Croton. One of the survi-

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C24 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

vers by the name of Job, lived to a good old age ; gaining his livelilux).! 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. There he was left a prey to the dogs and crows, to be devoured at their leisure. All traces of the bones are now gone. Eighteen Indians were buried in one pit in an Indian field ; it is still a current tra- ■dition, that the old Sachem haunts the scene of conflict.