Jotham Purdy, I believe, was one of DeLancey's captains. -- [Mem. This is confirmed by Lott Merritt, a trooper, whose horse was killed mounted Purdy's and retreated with his party. One horse ran half a mile, and then dropped dead.... David Brown.]

When Kipp advanced against Mosier it was said that he waited a long time for a detachment of infantry that accompanied him and attacked only when he found they would not arrive in time. -- Totten.

Benj.(?) Clapp's tavern in King Street was afterwards Headquarters for the Americans in the Revolutionary war. It stood on the White Plains road to Bedford about a quarter or half a mile south (?) from the corner at the Smithy where you turn east to go to Bedford.

[ Mem. The spot where Captain Purdy was killed is not more than half a mile from Rye Bridge on Pur- -chase Street road, and at the fork where the Hogpenridge road commences. After his fall his party wheeled about and must then have advanced to White Plains by some other road -- probably North Street. J. M. M. He must have advanced by the North Street there being then no other! J. M. M. --]

Octr. 23d Merritt Brown of King Street near Portchester. Brown, a jerseyman and a lieutennant in Sheldon's, was a brave man, and obtained great credit by a retreat he made when