[margin: 157.] Elizabeth German or Jarmin was still alive, with all her faculties well preserved except her hearing. That she still resides at Glen Cove, L.I. near the Steamboat wharf along with her son John Jarmin who, I think, is a boatman, &c. She remembered my visit last year. I left my card for Mr. Davis.

October 18th Samuel Lyon of Weaver Street: "When Major Huggeford cut off the American regulars in North North Street, he called, in the middle of the night, at the house of Ebenezer Knapp and woke him up suddenly by thundering at the door. Knapp, supposing it a hostile visit, sprang up and took hold of his musket, but Huggeford called out to him: "Knapp! you need'nt [margin: 157] [page break] [margin: 158] get your gun or show any fight, for you are in my power. I have a regiment behind me but I won't hurt you. Dress quickly and come along. I want you for a guide. You're a great rascal I know, but you can do me good service. Take me to Colonel Wells' quarters." Upon this occasion Major Huggeford had forded the Byram three quarters of a mile or more above Sherwood's Bridge, and also above the farm of John Green where Major Huggeford had been brought up, and which Green was his uncle.

About the middle of the war, General Thomas's flour mills on the Byram, near his house, were taken and plundered by a party of DeLancey's Refugees who took off a great quantity of flour. Among the Refugees who came up on this occasion was one Silvanus Simmons who belonged to DeLancey's Corps, but who a short time previously was found by General Thomas at West Point, where he had been [margin: 158] [page break] [margin: 159.] for some time in prison, from which he was taken by Thomas (who knew him) on parole and very kindly treated.