[margin: 176] [margin: 229] 94. [margin: 1845] [margin: (Carriage - Sept 11 to October 29 - 10 times.)] October 29th Jackson Odell: It was not on Browne's Hill that Barnes and Hunt were taken, but in the valley below - Barnes made no resistance and lost reputation. He was surrounded and surrendered without a striking a blow. He distinguished himself at the taking of Fort Montgomery in 1777, but ravaged the country about Moore's patent, where West Point afterwards stood, plundering and burning.

He married a sister of the Hatfields, Abraham and Richard.

The child taken out and left in the snow by a soldier at the burning of the Van Tassel house in 1777 was Leah Van Tassel, afterwards wife of Captain John Romer, and the heroine of Irving's legend of Sleepy Hollow.

* only child of Cornelius Van Tassel and his wife [page break] [margin: 179] [margin: 230] 95. [margin: 1845] A young girl was shot by a party under Emmerick, near the present site of the Saw Mill River Road Church, accidentally. Emmerick expressed great regret, and made many apologies for the occurrence.

The child taken out and left in the snow by a soldier at the burning of the Van Tassel house in 1777 was Leah Van Tassel, afterwards wife of Captain John Romer, and the heroine of Irving's legend of Sleepy Hollow. * only child of Cornelius Van Tassel and his wife [page break] [margin: 179] [margin: 230] 95. [margin: 1845] A young girl was shot by a party under Emmerick, near the present site of the Saw Mill River Road Church, accidentally. Emmerick expressed great regret, and made many apologies for the occurrence.