November 1st Joshua Carpenter, of Yorktown: "This house where I now lived belonged to my grand=father Richardson Davenport (not Danforth) and was the Head quarters of Colonel Greene and Major Flagg in the Spring of 1781. Colonel Greene was not here accidentally on the morning of his surprise, but his per=manent Head quarters and residence were at this house. The road which passes to the house leeds from the Crum pond and Pines Bridge road down to the Croton and there stops There are several houses now on this road, but in the Revolutionary war it was probably a farm road. The Davenport House where I live is about one mile from Blenis's ford, about two and a half miles from Pines Bridge by the road

[marg: 1845] .and about three quarters of a mile from the Crompond and Pines Bridge road. The present Pines Bridge stands exactly where the old bridge stood in the Revolution. On the hill north of the Croton and of the bridge and just over it are the remains of old works thrown up by Washington to command the bridge and which he mounted with several cannon.

The following are the particulars of Greene's disaster, as I have heard them from my ancestors at various times, and particularly from my grandfather who lived here at the time. A party of DeLancey's Refugees (under Kipp I believe) crossed the Croton at Blenis's ford and got to the house unperceived. --

They came up on the West side of the house where only a single sentinel