[margin: 362] [margin: 127] [margin: 19.] [margin: PARTS] [margin: 1846] [margin: November 21.] Mrs Hannah Miller. I am 85 years old. Totten was a small man but remarkably handsome and well formed. Colonel Isaac Hatfield was a tall, well looking and good man. Lieut. James Kipp was small active and talkative. During the Revolutionary war I was with my aunt, the widow Brewer, on the place where John Wolfe now lived, and where Elias Capron now resides. There never was any large quantity of public stores at White Plains at any one time except in 1776 and 1778 - though at Wright's mills there generally was some on hand in all probability. Anthony Miller commanded a company of militia and took a very active part among the whigs at the commencement of the troubles. He was at the capture and death of William Lounsbury. Fearful then that he had gone too far he went below to make

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[margin: 128] [margin: 363] [margin: 20.] [margin: PARTS] his peace. Some one informed that he had aided in Lounsbury's death, and had used expressions derogatory to the King's government. He was, in consequence, thrown into the old Provost prison where he caught the small pox and died. The Black rate was enforced in our neighbourhood.

Mrs. Rachel Cypher: After Cornwallis's surrender, I, with three or four girls of my own age, went on foot to Bedford, where we entered a tavern and hurraed several times and shouted: "Cornwallis is taken!" "Cornwallis is taken!" This gave great offence to a tory sitting there who got up and went away in a passion, saying that some crazy wenches were reporting about that Cornwallis and his army had surrendered.

The Black rate was enforced in our neighbourhood. Mrs. Rachel Cypher: After Cornwallis's surrender, I, with three or four girls of my own age, went on foot to Bedford, where we entered a tavern and hurraed several times and shouted: "Cornwallis is taken!" "Cornwallis is taken!" This gave great offence to a tory sitting there who got up and went away in a passion, saying that some crazy wenches were reporting about that Cornwallis and his army had surrendered.