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Interview with Orser, Talman

Macdonald, John. Interview with Orser, Talman, 1766-1862; (1850-10-17). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 1020. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026. 285 words

resides at 65 Stanton St, but am not certain. She is a daughter of Jabez Sherwood of the Log-Bridge over the Byram, is about 80 years old, and must know the Revolutionary transactions of her native neighborhood.

Oct. 17th Talman Orser, of Ossining, aged 82 : "There were four corners at Twitchings during the Revolutionary war formed by the White Plains and Pines Bridge road and the [marg: North Castle] Bedford and Tarrytown road near the Poor House was a road used before the Revolutionary war.

I was born in the house where I now live. The Refugees under the Kipps, Sam'l. and James, used to come up and sweep off our cattle. Once they took off as many as 200 head of horses and cattle, and about twenty head from this place owned by my father and grandfather. *Bearmore* commanded on this occasion.

When Armand took Bearmore he secured him upon his own horse behind him, being unwilling to trust him with any other person.

When the Refugees had taken our cattle and furniture, we moved to Yorktown where the following West Chester Guides boarded with us, viz: The two Dyckmans, Brom and Mike, the two Oakleys, Cornelius and James, John Pine, and Mark Post.

There was a party of women about here who in the beginning of the war attacked a Tea pedlar and an Irishman named James Dunlap, and compelled him to sell tea to them for continental money. Their number was fifteen or twenty. They lay in wait for him about three miles above the old church on the N. R. [marg: New Rochelle? North River] Turnpike on the road. They got as much as they wanted for the present --