James Toshey (who belonged to Totten's Company) boasted at this time that he could show more rebel blood upon his sword than any of the detachment. De Lancey, on his return from the pursuit of Captain Cushings, stopped at James McChain's and took breakfast. He slept there a short time with boots and spurs on. Enquiring [page break] 26. the name of the Officer who commanded the American detachment and being informed it was Captain Cushing, he exclaimed: "He will one day be General Cushing". The names of those taken up with Jonathan Odell after the battle of White Plains and confined in the Sugar house were Abraham Storms and Jacob Storms, Tennis Cronk and Gerritt Lent. They all died but Odell who was taken with the others in the Fall of '76 and returned. Mrs Rebecca Odell, mother of General Odell was the bearer of proposals of marriage on the part of Colonel Guest to the Widow Babcock who declined on the ground that Col. Guest was a stranger, that she ought to learn more of his circumstances and standing before she could listen to his suit, & that the times were not propitious for marriage. [margin: Gist] [page break] 27. Sept. 22d Jackson Odell. "Captain Roberts urged Thompson at Young's house, to fall back upon the relief or to retire into the house, but he persisted in drawing up in front. John Odell was then despatched to a hill near Twitching's corner, where one of the relief companies had been posted, but it had marched a day before to Wrights Mills. Upon the first intelligence of Newton's advance, Jonathan Odell conducted a daughter of Joseph Young afterwards Mrs. Van Wart on horseback to a place of safety. The horse he rode was a the Courtland grey. Tuesday September 23rd. - "The road from the White Plains road near the Court House which leads to Twitching's was called the Saw Mill river road.