The troops were directed to sit back upon the haunches, and the horses then kept their heads more easily above water. Their number was about forty, and they crossed from the Point. [I think this was when the American and the French engineers measured the distance &c.]

Captain Honeywell of the [American] West Chester Refugees was the brother of Philip Honeywell, and lived where Isaac Odell afterwards resided. His, and his father's

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name was Israel.

In and before the Revolution the tide at West Chester mills rose over the causeway [marg: * see next page - 14a] which accounts for Rochambeau's adventure. It was afterwards raised. Captain Solomon Fowler in the beginning or before the war attempted to cross to attend a wedding. He was on horseback, and his wife and daughter (a girl of fifteen) in a gig. The tide swept the gig away and the daughter was drowned. He was cautioned anxiously not to make the attempt. [ There was a pass above back of Honeywell's (or Watson's?) where there was a bridge which was guarded by in 1776 by the Americans. ]

A party of the guides and others under Odell (Queré, John?) had been to Morrisania and were returning by the Sprain road. -- They were hungry and weary, and had five or six prisoners, and some of DeLancey's horses, cattle and arms. [ The main body with the prisoners went on, but one of the Odells, Post, McChain, and^an other stopped, and were taken by a party of DeLancey's that pursued.]