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Interview with Chadeayne, Samuel

Macdonald, John. Interview with Chadeayne, Samuel, c.1770-c.1854; (1844-11-01). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 862. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026. 190 words

Saml Chadeayne contd. [margin: PAGES] quarters. &c and then advanced (in whole or in part) to the widow Grifen's where a party was posted and summoned them to surrender, offering quarter if no resistance &c was made, but threatened extermination &c if otherwise &c. The officer commanding agreed to surrender and most of the men surrendered but two black men refused and fired into the troops. They were pursued through the fields and killed. Mr Green lived on the same road near where it joins the Somers road a little east of Pinesbridge. The planks at Pines bridge were taken up every night and replaced in the morning. The troops under Green were probably from Rhode Island.

The officer commanding agreed to surrender and most of the men surrendered but two black men refused and fired into the troops. They were pursued through the fields and killed. Mr Green lived on the same road near where it joins the Somers road a little east of Pinesbridge. The planks at Pines bridge were taken up every night and replaced in the morning. The troops under Green were probably from Rhode Island.