146 213 78. October 20th. Daniel Odell of Yonkers. "Captain Joshua Barnes and Lieut. Benjamin Hunt with a smart party were surprised and taken at Browne's Hill, where the Tuckahoe Church stands, but I don't remember who commanded the Americans or in what year it happened. Barnes upon this occasion was thought not to have acted with courage. Hunt it is said was opposed to surrendering and offered if Barnes would give him the command to bring their party off. They both (Barnes and Hunt) went to Nova Scotia." (Query. As to the affair of December 1777?) "Isaac (or Uck) Odell, the Guide had been below with a party and taken some prisoners of De Lancey's. On their return part of them, contrary to to the wishes of their Commanding

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214 149 79. officer stopped in the night to take supper at Jacob Vermille's on the Tuckahoe road. The rest of the party with all the prisoners, passed on and arrived safely within the American lines. Those who halted at Vermille's (Vermilles) were surprised at, or soon after supper, by a pursuing party of De Lancey's and all taken except Col. John Odell, Isaac Lent and a boy named Van Nostrand. These made their escape by jumping from the windows of the house. This house of Jacob Vermille is now owned and occupied (?) by Isaac Lent. They always believed that the information which led to their capture was given by William Underhill. The first they knew they were fired upon." (Rivington says Odell and three others, guides, were taken - June 1781.)