We, the prisoners were taken first to Morrisania, then, on Saturday night to the Island (Randall's) opposite Randall's, and put in the log Provost there where we were confined, in want [page break] [margin: 1845.] Jail, and then on Sunday morning to Newyork where, one or two of us who were badly wounded were sent to the hospital, and the rest, Paulding excepted, to the Provost, that is, to the Old Jail. Paulding, in consequence of the celebrity he had acquired as one of the captors of André, was not confined but was entertained by the British officers, messing and living with the Captains and Lieutenants. We were detained prisoners till the 27th or 28th of April, that is, three months. Odell rode during most of the war a very fine grey horse presented to him by Governor Van Courtland, which he lost in the surprise at Orsers but afterwards recovered, the animal returning to the farm where he was raised.

George McChain was the only man killed, and was with me on the banks of the Hudson river when the Refugees came up to us. They gave me quarter, but refused [page break] [margin: 1845.] him of it tho he begged hard. They shot him and cut his body in pieces. The reason assigned for his barbarity was that he had burnt the dwellings and barns belonging to some of the Refugees, and had attempted to set fire to Colonel DeLancey's."

September 23. Samuel Lyon of Yonkers: "When we pursued the Cowboys (September 4. 1781) we first discovered them from the hill near the Old Dutch Church. They were then passing (on the road by) near André's great white wood tree. We held a Council of war and determined to attack them, on the level ground just below Tarrytown, but they got near where Irving now stands before we could attack them."