228 898 [margin: Died- Prince Gedney aged 97 years - in Harrison Westchester Herald Dec 8/55] 230. [margin: slave] Decr 9th 1848 Prince Gedney, of White Plains: I will be 90 years old on the 15th of December inst, and was born in Scarsdale. I came in possession of the Gedney family when an infant. On the 28th of October 1776, I saw the advance of the British army to White Plains in two columns (the right column being composed of Scotch and Irish, and the left of Hessians) from the top of my master's house where John Gedney used to live. The right column advanced by way of Francis Secor's and Elijah Miller's marsh ing along the fields south west of the road. The left column advanced near Lawyer Hatfield's. Nothing separated them (that is, the two columns) but the woods. The right column had several cannon and I observed one very long one in particular. Every now and then the cannoniers would stop, wheel about and fire at the Americans and then move on all again. The Bronx [margin: 6.17.8]

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899 231 231. on that day was very high and much swollen in consequence of a freshet, and when the attacking column came to it, they either could not or would not cross until a bridge was built over it. William Lounsberry was a large, heavy resolute man. Captain Jonathan Purdy was for three or four years, or perhaps during most of the war, a private soldier in the British service. The liberty pole which was destroyed or injured in 1775, stood between Captain Abraham Hatfield's and the Court House. The destruction or injury was attributed to Captain N. and Lieut. Wm Lounsberry. The pole was ruined by boring boring holes into it by an augur.