84 660 [margin: 180 169.] [margin: PAPERS] whether they advanced at this time through White Plains or by way of Tarrytown. Colonel Armand lay with his legion once or twice at Jacob Ryders in Ossining about seven miles from Tarrytown.

[margin: 1847.] Decr. 1847. William Barker of White Plains: "Captain Ambrose Horton lived at the commencement of the Revolutionary war in a house which stood opposite Captain Bostwick's old place, in one of your fathers fields. This house was burnt along with several barns and outhouses containing forage and provisions which could not be removed when General Washington took up his second position on the 31st. of October 1776. I think it most likely that the soldiers who had the difficulty with Nathaniel Adams in August 1775, were some of Captain Ambrose Horton's provincial recruits [margin: See eight p. 111.]

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661 87 [margin: 181 170.] [margin: PAPERS] Captain Micah Townsend was, I believe, from somewhere in the upper part of the County. Micajah Townsend was a different person altogether. He was a Lawyer, and before and at the commence -ment of the war practiced at White Plains. He was a royalist, and after the Revolutionary war settled in Canada.

[margin: 1848.] 1848. May 6th. Donald McLean: "John Kane of Fredericksburg was a merchant and farmer extensively engaged in business, and a man of very considerable consequence. He and Malcolm Morrison and Major Alexander Grant (killed at Fort Montgomery) and Charles Cullen all of Fredericksburg married daughters of Priest Kent of South East--two Irish and two Scotch men. Kane's two sons, John &

He was a royalist, and after the Revolutionary war settled in Canada. [margin: 1848.] 1848. May 6th. Donald McLean: "John Kane of Fredericksburg was a merchant and farmer extensively engaged in business, and a man of very considerable consequence. He and Malcolm Morrison and Major Alexander Grant (killed at Fort Montgomery) and Charles Cullen all of Fredericksburg married daughters of Priest Kent of South East--two Irish and two Scotch men. Kane's two sons, John &