This man's name was James Foskey.

Captain Colonel Cushing's party on the retreat from Morrisania passed up the Sprain road to Mc Chain's where it terminated, and then took to the fields when in order to gain the Saw Mill river road, they had to pass some long sloping ground, near called Van Tassel's Hill or Van Tassel's slope, favorable to a cavalry charge [margin: Van Tassel] [page break] which Mr. Dyckman said he momently expected.

Colonel Hammond told me that Emmerick was surprised upon some occasion at the corner of a wood which stands on the north side of the (Sprain) Saw Mill (?) road, about one mile south west of Young's house. (?)

Infantry attack upon Donop and Hertz in Edgar's Lane. The principal guide was Isaac Odell (a cousin of Colonel John Odell [Nick] who charged along with Major Lee. - It was the same Odell, generally called Nick Odell, who was taken at Versailles. He was a guide).

September 15th Jackson Odell. On enquiring, I find a Norton advanced by the Tuckeyhoe road to Harts Corner and took the Sprain (or Meeting House) road (formerly called Allaire's road) to Young's. At Harts Corner, Mr. Reed went express with the news. Mr Campbell

The principal guide was Isaac Odell (a cousin of Colonel John Odell [Nick] who charged along with Major Lee. - It was the same Odell, generally called Nick Odell, who was taken at Versailles. He was a guide). September 15th Jackson Odell. On enquiring, I find a Norton advanced by the Tuckeyhoe road to Harts Corner and took the Sprain (or Meeting House) road (formerly called Allaire's road) to Young's. At Harts Corner, Mr. Reed went express with the news. Mr Campbell