He ran out of a door to the north which led to a garden surrounded by a picket fence which cost him so much time that before he could scale it, he was taken prisoner and tied. Some half an hour or more afterwards while he was leaning against the back of the house an Irishman named William Dalton came up and accosted Gibson. "Gibson, you have threatened my life." Gibson replied, "No, I have not." Whereupon Dalton fired and killed him with his musket.

May 14. 1781, Delancey's main party crossed the fields and bye-roads to Blenis's ford, where the foot mounted behind the horse and passed the river.

Elisha Pudney of Somers - Mr Wood, of North Castle.

Genl Wm Greene, of Pines Bridge, was a wealthy farmer who did not belong to the

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206 568 militia, but had the soubriquet of General which pleased him. Col. Benjn Greene of Somers commanded a militia regiment after the Revolutionary war.

Eden Hunt, brother of Major Hunt, of Baker's Hook, with a party of guides on horseback, at a spot between the Chadeayne farm and Sing Sing was ambuscaded and fired upon by a party of Refugees. He was shot through the body, but recovered. - See Thayer.

"During the Revolutionary war and previous to the spring of 1781, when my father left Yorktown for New Rochelle, there was (for a while) a company of foot stationed at O'Blenis's, to guard the ford with a sergeant's squad guard of ten or twelve men at work our house - (Chadeayne) - that is, a picket. The Refugees who were lurking about the neighbouring woods and houses determined to carry off this guard. The company which formed the main guard and the advanced were