DeLancey during the action advanced (himself personally) no further than the Negro fort. The cannon were spiked in 1776, at Cook's or the Negro fort, which stood exactly where my son's house now stands about a quarter of a mile and perhaps a little more south of the store house built by Isaac Valentine and adjacent to the old post road. Isaac Valentine was a black- -smith and lived the latter part of his life and died at White Plains. They had hard

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work in drilling out the cannon which were spiked with steel and rat tail files. Every once in a while one of the cannon would go off. I do not remember that Barnes was one of Emmerick's Captains, but Ogden and Althouse were. Bearmore did more active partisan service than all the rest of the Refugees officers together. During the siege of Fort Independence in 1777, I saw General Wooster on the heights near Isaac Valentines, carried by his men in a litter.

work in drilling out the cannon which were spiked with steel and rat tail files. Every once in a while one of the cannon would go off. I do not remember that Barnes was one of Emmerick's Captains, but Ogden and Althouse were. Bearmore did more active partisan service than all the rest of the Refugees officers together. During the siege of Fort Independence in 1777, I saw General Wooster on the heights near Isaac Valentines, carried by his men in a litter.