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Interview with Carpenter, Elizabeth Field

Macdonald, John. Interview with Carpenter, Elizabeth Field, 1771-1854; (1848). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 895. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026. 205 words

Esq Benjamin Clapp's house was, probably, burnt in February 1781 by Major Hungerford, though I had supposed it was fired on the same day Bedford was burnt.

The house of Henry Dusenbury where Mosier was when surprised &c, is the house you saw in the fields south of Merritt's corner, and east of the road now now untenanted and surrounded by locust trees. There was at that time a lane running from this house quite across to Blind Brook. (W. C.)

[marg: (x This paragraph, it seems, was furnished by John Carpenter, & not by Elizabeth, his wife.)] Col. Thomas's house was burnt during the war, but I don't know when, not when Simcoe took him.

The house of Henry Dusenbury where Mosier was when surprised &c, is the house you saw in the fields south of Merritt's corner, and east of the road now now untenanted and surrounded by locust trees. There was at that time a lane running from this house quite across to Blind Brook. (W. C.) [marg: (x This paragraph, it seems, was furnished by John Carpenter, & not by Elizabeth, his wife.)] Col. Thomas's house was burnt during the war, but I don't know when, not when Simcoe took him.