9. Sept 1st Jackson Odell: "Mr Vermille recollects a good deal more than he chooses to tell. He admitted to me lately that at the storming of Young's House, Emmish took his father at night, and compelled him to go with them as a guide, and that the British advanced by the Saw Mill river road. Mr. Vermille had a brother who held the Commission of Captain in the American service, and whose widow has lately recovered a pension with arrears &c amounting to $ . Mr. Vermille thinks it must have been a Major who commanded the party that &c captured Bearmore, as the detachment amounting to 150 or 200 men were too large for a Captain. They got below Barnes' on the Tuckeyhoe road and cut off his retreat. Barnes' third officer was Ensign Eagleson who came from Harts Corner.

Noah's paper of the 4th of July last contains a story which Capt. Romer pro- -nounced false, upon the ground that it

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mentions a Valentine family residing at Sing Sing, but I have since ascertained that there was such a family there. Champanois is represented as having plundered above to such an extent that Captain Williams from Peeks hill got up a party for the express purpose of retaliating and taking Champanois a prisoner. He succeeded, and Champanois when killed at Youngs was guarded by a negro.

Firing in at the windows was com- -menced at Youngs house, Dec. 25. 1778, and retaliated, very soon after at a house at Miles' square, at a ball, by a party com- -manded by Williams, J. Trem. Dyckman was along. (?) Was it at Frederick Riches'?