Simcoe immediately moved rapidly into the road, and directly up the steeps to the enem/s camp, as a nearer way than through the thickets; he attained it, and, to his great surprise, found that Major Pruschank had not forced Philips' Bridge, as had been intended, but had crossed and joined Capt. Weeden en Cortlandt's ridge ; ?..nd that Col. Gist had escaped through the passage which had been so unaccountably left open. Lieut. CoL Tarleton fell in with a patrol of cavalry, and dispersed it; and tlie Queen's Rangers, as soon as they got possession of Gist's camp, having ambuscaded themselves,took a patrol which came forward on hearing, the firing. The troops set fire to Gist's huts and returned to their camp."<^
From the Americari accounts, it appears that all the roads and bridges had been well guarded by the enemy, except the one now called Warner's Bridge, and that Capt. John Odeli,upon the first alarm led off his troops through the woods on the west side of the Saw Mill ; here Colonel Gist joined them. In the merntime Mrs. Babcock, having stationed herself in one of the dormer windows of the Parsonage, aided their escape v,-henever they appeared, by the waving of a v.-hite handkerchief. a Simcoe "s ililU Journn!, p.S6.
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