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

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