483 49 4. taken to New York and died in Roosevelt St.

I believe, but am not sure that he was Delancy major. His sister kept house for me a short time after my wife's death. I do not know whether she's alive. DeLancy's Head Quarters. were about a mile below West Farms. Captn. Corse was under DeLancy. I had two uncles named Williams on different sides - viz: one Frederick Williams, a Captain in DeLancy's, and a very capable officer; and the other Capt. Daniel Williams, a celebrated partisan in the American service, who was a large fleshy, swarthy man, brave, enterprising, and of great military abilities.

Aug. 24. Donald McLean, of 34th St. between Avenues 7th & 8th. second house of the row from Ave. 8th: "Our family were originally Irish, and not McLean but Mc- Gillian. Our ancestors came from Ireland [page break] 50 484 5. to New York (?), and being a man of education rendered some important services to the great landed proprietor McDonald (Lord- Lian ?) who was in difficulties. In gratitude for these services McD. granted him a long lease (one or two hundred years ?) of the Borrera estate from which they took their distinctive appellation of the Borrera McLean. This lease has long since expired. John Kane went off from Fredericksburg with a band of men, one of whom, a son of Squire Haviland of Dover (or 9 Partners ?) was killed. A black servant who accompanied the young man Haviland afterwards returned. Kane himself never returned to Fredericksburg. (Tories were very numerous in). Tories were very numerous in Dutchess County and also in New Fairfield. Hoag and his followers robbed a store at Quaker Hill in open daylight at Hoobock P. H., and though many were present none offered any resistance but an old Quaker Priest named Ferris.