2/5 [margin: PAINS] you, a tory, take such liberties with the officers as to set the prisoners free?" He replied, "Mr Brown, every devil of 'em is over head and ears in debt to me."

[margin: James Nash, and Francis Nash, and Brom Barrett on the other page.] Decd. 5th Samuel Lyon, of Rye, aged nearly 89: "Simcoe and Tarleton were both up when the British army lay at Griffen's hill in 1779. I don't think Simcoe commanded the party that burnt Bedford. Part of Tarleton's legion was at the burning of Bedford. Bearmore commanded the outguard when the British were at Griffen's hill, having under him about twenty horse. He applied to Colonel Tarleton for an addition to his force but Tarleton refused. [margin: Griffin's?] I saw Cale Green once driving a flock of about 150 geese with which he went down safely to Morrisania.

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216. [margin: PAINS] Tarleton's Major, Cochrane, might have gone to Bedford when it was burnt. [margin: See origl. p. 106.] Francis Nash was an Englishman and a hatter. He married a sister of Tommy Clapp which made him so rich. He was a very strong whig. His son James lives at the old place. Samuel Lyon concerned with Colonel Thomas in capturing a sloop in the Sound. He was brother of Ben Lyon of White Plains. He was a sea captain or had been and traded to the West Indies. I don't know whether Brom Barrett was an Irishman. Jabez Husted and some others once (I think in 1779) stole a drive of forty or fifty Continental cattle in the vicinity of Horseneck and drove them through Rye and Mamaroneck below. [margin: ?] (Mamaroneck?)

Samuel Lyon concerned with Colonel Thomas in capturing a sloop in the Sound. He was brother of Ben Lyon of White Plains. He was a sea captain or had been and traded to the West Indies. I don't know whether Brom Barrett was an Irishman. Jabez Husted and some others once (I think in 1779) stole a drive of forty or fifty Continental cattle in the vicinity of Horseneck and drove them through Rye and Mamaroneck below. [margin: ?] (Mamaroneck?)