76 498 19. house to the road they built a round house of stone which has recently been removed by me. I don't know for what purpose they used it. There was once an alarm which proved false that the French artillery was fired at the aforesaid place where it lay, and the army all turned out. These facts I heard mostly from my mother. Her first child was born at the French camp, on (I believe) the 9th of July 1781. The French general at my father's permitted the family to remain up stairs.

Sept. 7th. Jackson Odell - "It was Acker's slope (that is, smooth fields now owned by a family named Acker, and descending towards the Saw mill river road just above Mr. Howland's) where the Refugee horse [page break] 499 79 prepared to charge Cushing in April, 1780. - When the French army retired in August 1781, from their camp at Isaac Tompkins' they (or at least their artillery) retreated by the Allaire road where in several places they made cause ways of rails over low places for the passage of the cannon. There are still some remains of these cause ways to be seen."

Sept. 15. Jackson Odell called upon me at Mr. Putney's who had gone to New York the same evening. He informed me that he saw Dr. Cook this summer and talked with him about the Greene and Flagg papers which General Thomas showed to at his house twenty seven years ago or more (I think it was just previous to the great contested election of Tompkins and Clinton. It was in the winter, and there were present General Philip Van Cortland, General Thomas, Pierre

Putney's who had gone to New York the same evening. He informed me that he saw Dr. Cook this summer and talked with him about the Greene and Flagg papers which General Thomas showed to at his house twenty seven years ago or more (I think it was just previous to the great contested election of Tompkins and Clinton. It was in the winter, and there were present General Philip Van Cortland, General Thomas, Pierre