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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 Mertz in Edgars 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 advan- -ced 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

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6. 1845.

[margin: W. Colonel Thomas Merritt a brother of Shubael Merritt. Who first told Mr. Macdonald, when to go warred? Next, with Simms. After the war, when Simms was appointed Gov. of Upper Canada, he made Merritt a Sheriff of a county name not given. See Note Book 1844.] and Colonel William Hammond, then a boy, thereupon advanced on horseback to reconnoitre. Thompson said "they are only a few cowboys." Colonel Merritt & Simms - at dinner pr Sec. Balon - ordered to follow to Newyork. Col. Odell protected Colonel Merritt - who kept a small store at Chappaqua after the war. Cornl. Odell and others going to and from him - Odell said: "He has also behaved like an Officer and Gentleman - kind to prisoners - though an enemy - [margin: (Gill?)] Captain Abraham and (I) lived at James Tompkins - Excellent discipline of French troops. Colonel Thompson's outpost at Ikendahl Allaire's about a quarter [margin: the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]] or half mile from Young's.