Philipse was taken up and sent for safety to Simsbury mines, in Connecticut, where he was soon after paroled and returned home. It was in the summer or fall of 1776, soon after the affair

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of the Phoenix and Rose that the Fort at Dobbs Ferry was built which stood adjacent to Von Livingston's house on the east side of the road, the remains of which are still visible Observed the Fort was probably intended to protect the Ferry which was then south of the present Ferry nearly opposite the Livingston house.

-- Whence Prince William Henry came out to Philipse manor near Valentine's Hill in company with General Carleton at the head of the covering party of a grand forage which was said to consist of five thousand or six thousand men The Prince and Sir Guy dined at Frederick Van Cortlandtt's where Henry White and Augustus Morris Van Cortlandtt afterwards resided

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[marg: +] 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 3rd. Jackson Odell. "I heard my father often say that George McChain was killed in consequence of being concerned in burning the houses and barns of some Royalists and of having attempted 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 Vermielle's at Kingsbridge and with Cushing's party. He was riding by Ogden's