George McChain at the surprise at Orser's was refused quarter in consequence of having been concerned in setting fire to some houses and barns of the British Refugees, and of having attempted to burn Colonel DeLancey's house at West Farms by firing some barrels of tar which were extinguished. Paulding was considered a prisoner of consequence, and, having before escaped several times when captured, was guarded with great care. They secured him by tying his legs under the belly of the horse he rode. He tried to prevail upon several during his march from Sing Sing to West Chester to untie the ropes, saying he could escape almost anywhere by jumping from his horse and taking the woods. --

At the ambuscade of Nimham, Colonel Emmerick was deliberately fired at by an Indian and narrowly escaped by ducking his head -- the ball hitting his hat. The Indians passed my fathers down the Saw Mill River Road, the day before they were surprised and cut to pieces.

1845.

When Emmerick took the Van Tassells he marched up the Sawmill River Road.

[marg: x] Captain Rowe was killed near the Methodist Church at Yonkers, was a great favorite among the country people where he was known.

The place where Colonel Hatfield surprised a party of Americans who had been below was probably at William Underhill's about a mile south of Lent's Hill. Some American troops were [certainly] once surprised there early in the morning.

[marg: x] Vermille's house, where Isaac (Uck) Odell and two others, guides, were surprised and taken in June '81, on their return from an excursion to Morrisania, having stopped to sup -- is on the Sprain Road one mile and an half south east of Joseph Odell's.