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Interview with Carpenter, Joshua

Macdonald, John. Interview with Carpenter, Joshua, 1787-1873; (1845-11-01). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 1103. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026. 251 words

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.

The Refugees fired into their bed room through the west window which is now closed up, and through the north door which remains as it was.

Blenis's ford were, probably, a mile

1845.

and an half below Pines Bridge. (?)

On the 14th of May last year, a Mr Ward (fifty or sixty years old) of Newyork, called upon me saying that he was a nephew or had married a niece of Colonel Greene -- that it was the anniversary of the Colonel's death -- that (as I understood him) he belonged to the Firm of Prime, Ward, King & Co. and wished to examine the house.

I showed him through -- told him all I knew of the Colonel's fate, and pressed him to stay all night and sleep in the room where Greene and Flagg were surprised, but he declined, because he was expected back by company waiting his return at Pines Bridge,