240. 263 128. November 5th. Zipporah Davis (wife of Abraham): "General Lee's Head-quarters were at my mother's (Annatije Millers) a day or two before the battle of White Plains, and that morning or the day before he advised us to move back, observing: 'If you stay here you'll have a very troublesome time.' We started in the morning in an ox cart with beds, &c horses &c, and some of our furniture for North Castle where we remained eight or ten days, stopping not long after we left home upon a high hill where we saw the fight on Chatterton Hill. When we returned our waggon and chairs were broken, and almost everything about the house destroyed. My eldest sister, Sarah Mott, has spun and woven a set of home [page break] 264 243 129. linen damask bed curtains, chequered blue and white, which we left behind for General Lee. Mrs. Mott returned either with or before us, to recover her curtains and found them in the hands of General Lee's tailor who was making a cloak for him, and in the very act of cutting up the curtains for lining. Both tailor and general were very unwilling to give up the curtains at first, but Mrs. Mott at length regained possession of them. The family of Joseph Young's (father of Sam) was very respectable and polished. General Washington had his Headquarters at our house for one day, and slept there one night when my mother gave him her own bed, the only time she ever resigned it. [page break] 244 265 130. All I recollect of the Duke de Lauzerne consists in these particulars, viz: that he was a very polite, had a handsome person, wore moustaches, was liberal with money, and resided at a house where John Norton now lives.