I don't know whether he was an American or a German. When Tim Knapp was taken Colonel De Lancey came into West Farms from his quarters below, about 9, a.m. He paced the Guard room awhile in silence without deigning to cast a glance at the prisoner, but at length suddenly stopped before him, and looking him full in the face, thus addressed him, his whole frame trembling, and the tone of his voice deep and quivering with passion: "Tim Knapp, prepare to die! You shall be hung before 12 o'clock this day, by the living God!" Knapp did not appear terrified. On the contrary he at first looked gay and smiling, but as the hour approached he became more sober. He said that from the first moment of his discovering Colonel De Lancey's countenance he had no longer any hope of preserving

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his life. The only observation he was heard to make at the place of execution was the following: Looking first around him, and then at his old commander he said: "Colonel De Lancey! if your men were to be hanged for every horse they had stolen (taken or plundered) where would they all be?" ye ye. Major Bearmore's sister, Stillitze, married Robert Emery. The West Chester people must be able to tell if any of the Bearmore's family be living, where they are to be found. [Part of this I got from Mr. Berrian. J. M. M.] It was in 1778, I think, that my aunt, Mrs. Phoebe Turner (Daniel Turner's widow) was robbed and afterwards murdered. From the wounds in her hands and arms and the place where her body lay, it was supposed, they were on the point of finding her money, and that she then resisted,