The next day they dug another grave behind tlie hill in the woods, south-east of William Smith's house, a very out of the way place. The better to conceal the grave, they cut down a tree -- making it fall directly over the spot. Five months afterwards, it became generally known that Pluson was buried there ; whereupon the neighbors disinterred the remains, and crowds of people carne, some from a'gre.it distance, to see the remains of one who had been such a terror and scourge to the whole country round. They wanted to satisfy themselves that^he was really dead ; some proposed to hang the corpse on a jibbet, but finally better feehngs prevailed and they consigned it to the grave where it probably remained undisturbed. Several of the men v,-ho first buried him we afterwards discovered to be the same party who also robbed our tenant liouse and intended to pillage us. Whitney, as a rev.-ard for killing Huson, was exempted from papng taxes during the remainder of his life. This Huson was of the same family as the man who was hung for instigating the negroes to insurrection in New York city.
Rochambeau, while in our neighborhood, had his head-quarters at Parkers (then Samuel Dilwa/s) while another French General was quartered at my father's. The Generals always dined together alternately at each others 'quarters, this brought them, once a week, to our house. Great preparations were always made on these occasions-- a French cook who had been in the employ of the king of France, and his assistants, serxing in the kitchen.