Interview with Carpenter, Joshua
The Refugees at the same time burst open the north door and fired in, thus making a cross fire, You see five or six bullet holes yet remaining in the doors and pannel work.
Greene, a large powerful
man, met the enemy at the north door and attempted to defend it sword in hand. He struck at Totten, who was foremost, with all his might and would have killed him on the spot had not the blow been parried by, one of the Refugees. As it was Totten was stunned and wounded, Greene in the conflict received several shots and was lamentably cut and hacked with the sabre. He then asked for quarter and it was granted -- then for his parole which was refused. They told him he must go with them to Morrisania, and mounted him behind a dragoon for about a mile and a half or more, and then fell off where you descend a hill a little north west of the Widow Griffen's. Finding that he was dying they did not attempt a farther removal, but left him by the road side
[marg: 1845] [marg: (3)] with his head upon a bank of earth.
The Davenport House was built by my grandfather in 1773, and painted in 1776 -- on the last year it was by mistake dated. In some respects its interior has been altered. It is a double house standing upon a slight declivity, two stories high, a hall through the centre of the first story and the rear of the second storey opening upon the ground through a door which now remains. Greene and Flagg occupied the north-west bed room of the second storey (which now is partitioned into two bed rooms) sleeping in the same bed.