1845. 61. October 8th. Mr. Jackson Odell tells me he has ascertained from Mr. that Vincent's brother lived though cut to pieces, and that this barbarity was practiced not by the French but by Americans.

October 3d. Jackson Odell. "I heard my father often say that George McChain was killed in con= sequence of being concerned in burning the houses and barns of some Royalists and of having attempt= ed the destruction of Colonel DeLancey's house by firing some tow.

My father assisted in capturing Captain Ogden twice. He was with the party that took him at Vermille's at Kingsbridge and with Cushing's party. He was riding by Ogden's [page break] side down Van Tassell's slope when Ogden said to him: "If I had the command of our horse now I should charge you here." The time was then after sunrise. Captain Joshua Barnes lived at Hart's corner before the war. He was said to have been born on the Richard Hatfield place, was a very active officer, and distinguished himself at the reduction of Fort Montgomery where he was one of those that led the storming party. I have understood that there was an American party overtaken and cut to pieces at Lent's Hill on the Tuckeyhoe road by the Refugees, and that at another time an American party was surprised near the break of day at William Underhill's, a [page break] 1845. mile south of Lent's Hill and most of them killed or captured. Van Nostrand was with the party at Lent's Hill (?). One of these, probably the latter I conjecture to have been Colonel Hatfield's affair of December 16th 1784 (?). My father said that Barton Lawrence Smith and Vincent were fool= ish boys who were so rash as to attack a company of Refugee horse, and lost their lives in consequence.