661 87 181 70. Captain Micah Townsend was, I believe, from somewhere in the upper part of the County. Micajah Townsend was a different person altogether. He was a Lawyer, and before and at the commence ment of the war practiced at White Plains. He was a royalist, and after the Revolutionary war settled in Canada.

1848. 1848. May 6th. Donald McLean: "John Kane of Fredericksburg was a merchant and farmer extensively engaged in business, and a man of very considerable consequence. He and Malcolm Morrison and Major Alexander Grant (killed at Fort Montgomery) and Charles Cullen all of Fredericksburg married daughters of Priest Kent of South East--two Irish and two Scotch men. Kane's two sons, John &

[page break] 88 662 182 71. Charles went off with him. His daughter Patty married Gilbert Livingston of the lower manor. Kane was a very polite man, educated, as was said, for a catholic priest. He horsewhipped his children sometimes, but this was discipline he was brought up to. Colonel Cook's house at Danbury was (almost the only active Whig whose dwelling) preserved. He told his family to give the the British the best entertainment they could, provisions &c. Dinners was furnished when they came, and they destroyed nothing. Col. Barclay told me that Major Alex- Grant, who was killed at Fort Montgomery was sent for by the Commander (Col. C. or Genl. Clinton) who wanted to give some commands to him. He went, received orders, but unfortunately returned by a different route (a shorter and more expeditious one probably), and was killed. He was a Scotchman, and lived on the Same and M. Howe's Farm, Jr. Alexander Menzies, son of Major Thomas Menzies, an