102197 [margin: (Stephen Hall ½ a mile from Delancey's elles, Mary Ward, Ward's Island, lives with Oliver Ward)] November 5th. William Griffen, of Mamaroneck. "William Lounsberry was enlisting for the King and lay in the Great Lots about one mile and a half from Mamaroneck village when he was attacked and killed. His men were not armed. In 1779, the British army lay near the road where Nathaniel Brown afterwards lived, about two miles north of Mamaroneck village on the west side of the White Plains road. The party that burnt Bedford went from near our house. (They started in the night and we did not hear of them or know of their excursion until their return.) I think, but am not certain, they were the Queen's Rangers under Simcoe. Colonel Rogers was surprised at Nelson's Hill back of J.P. Delancey's. Colonel Burr used to come to our house with Cornelius Oakley, who was his guide, or one of them. [margin: John Peter Delancy.]

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61. Lauzun said: "The women of this country don't like my whiskers. I can't get along with them - but I can't cut them off". His men took cider - three or four barrels from us without paying, and my father then went to the Plains and complained to the Duke who immediately sent an officer to us and paid liberally. The officer was angry because my father complained to the Duke. My father was a neutral in politics and for that reason was suspected of being a tory. My father invited the Dukes officers (3) who paid us to dinner - treated them to some "Cider Royal", when they forgot their pique about his complaint to the Duke, and got very merry. I think some of the Duke's legion officers and men were Dutch or German. * They brought a cart with them from White Plains, and threatened to kill my father if he hindered them.

My father was a neutral in politics and for that reason was suspected of being a tory. My father invited the Dukes officers (3) who paid us to dinner - treated them to some "Cider Royal", when they forgot their pique about his complaint to the Duke, and got very merry. I think some of the Duke's legion officers and men were Dutch or German. * They brought a cart with them from White Plains, and threatened to kill my father if he hindered them.