Interview with Odell, Jackson
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. The spot where the right wing of the American Army came in sight of the British columns marching wes= terly, when the former was retreating to White Plains, the 27th of October 1776, with their baggage &c, on the Tuckeyhoe road, must have been near the Tuckeyhoe Church, and nearly opposite Ward's house. Perhaps a little above [page break] 1845. or below, there being a cross road within a mile of Ward's house, both north and south (?). It was in 1776. and General Vaughan encamped at Odell's Hill.
Monday, October 6th Thomas Strang, of Yorktown about two miles from Crum Pond: "My father and his three brothers were born at Crum Pond in Courtland's Manor. In the Revolution two of them, viz. my uncle, Major Joseph and my father Henry Strang, were whigs, being officers in Colonel Samuel Drake's militia regiment, and the other two were tories, viz. Daniel &
Perhaps a little above [page break] 1845. or below, there being a cross road within a mile of Ward's house, both north and south (?). It was in 1776. and General Vaughan encamped at Odell's Hill. Monday, October 6th Thomas Strang, of Yorktown about two miles from Crum Pond: "My father and his three brothers were born at Crum Pond in Courtland's Manor. In the Revolution two of them, viz. my uncle, Major Joseph and my father Henry Strang, were whigs, being officers in Colonel Samuel Drake's militia regiment, and the other two were tories, viz. Daniel &