while the punishment was going on, declaring he meant it all for their good. One, one of his men after running the gauntlet, leaped up, clapped his hands and exclaimed: "I am now a better man than ever I was!" Colonel Emmick immediately put his hand in his pocket & gave him a guinea.

October 1st Frederick Post of Yonkers: "Jacob Van Courtland and who took the large house and farm under the family entailment was a very good benevolent man, universally loved. - During the war, and while residing in Courtland House he became out of health and went to New York for change of air and medical treatment where he soon after died. The estate then devolved on Augustus who lived at that [page break] at Flatbush (L.I.) but Frederick moved in and took possession and gave up his own house to Colonel Warner who kept his Head quarters there when his regiment lay in that part of Westchester. After the war in 1784 or 85; Frederick moved back and Augustus took the Hall and estate.

On the day the Stockbridge Indians were ambuscaded, Capt. Daniel Williams was near them in the rear with his rangers, and but for a very quick retreat would have been cut off. Old Mr. Bowers of Fort Washington was a German or Dutch man, but whether or not he came over with the Hessian army, I don't know. He married a daughter of old Jacob Moore. The here (that is, about Yonkers and Mile Square) were under the necessity of supplying the lower party with provisions and of trading with them, or of starving.

Daniel Williams was near them in the rear with his rangers, and but for a very quick retreat would have been cut off. Old Mr. Bowers of Fort Washington was a German or Dutch man, but whether or not he came over with the Hessian army, I don't know. He married a daughter of old Jacob Moore. The here (that is, about Yonkers and Mile Square) were under the necessity of supplying the lower party with provisions and of trading with them, or of starving.