Interview with Peterson, John
Thomas's saw-mill on the south of the road just after you raise a slight hill, between Purchase Street and King Street. On the morning of the attack we were in the fields east of Purchase Street and opposite the White Plains road. [margin: Richard] Capt. Richard Sackett was at breakfast, and was taken with his brother in the house. Prince [Godfrey?] a slave, (that is, a negro) of Captain Sackett, belonged to our company, stood firm, but he was a little afraid of the bullets. I, on the contrary, had no such thing as fear about me. I was then very rash. Kipp said, pointing to me: "There's another rascal! What are you doing here, you black rascal?" &c. I then stepped quickly from the ranks and pushed my bayonet into his hip, running instantly back, and regaining my station [margin: struck] unhurt, though at by Kipp and some of his men. I was much blamed for this.
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444 269 of his men. [margin: Here are some of Mosier's men: ?] Richard Sackett, James [illegible] Prince S. David Jones, Sergeant David Slater, J. B. Godfrey Voight, Sergeant James Croft, Abel Williams, Henry Christian, Shubal Cunningham, Silvanus Ferris, two Indians, and two light complexion'd colored men. [margin: Mosier was too stubborn to go to the woods.]
October. 12th Samuel Kipp, of Courtland: "My father was born at New- [North ?] Castle, I believe. He married just before the war, being then about twenty one. I was born in 1780, at New Castle. My father went first to Nova Scotia and then to Canada and did in Montreal, but I don't know the year of his decease. He never returned
Godfrey Voight, Sergeant James Croft, Abel Williams, Henry Christian, Shubal Cunningham, Silvanus Ferris, two Indians, and two light complexion'd colored men. [margin: Mosier was too stubborn to go to the woods.] October. 12th Samuel Kipp, of Courtland: "My father was born at New- [North ?] Castle, I believe. He married just before the war, being then about twenty one. I was born in 1780, at New Castle. My father went first to Nova Scotia and then to Canada and did in Montreal, but I don't know the year of his decease. He never returned