[margin: 1845] 140. November 12th Capt. John Romer. "Cornelius Van Tassel, my father -in-law, was a lieutenant in the militia regularly commissioned by Governor Clinton. Gilbert Dean, Sybert Acker, Joseph Requa, and William Dutcher were captains elected by volunteers for parti- -cular expeditions on account of their popularity, enterprize and courage and generally had at command a certain set who were ready to follow them in any daring enterprize. The Hammond family were from the Island of Bermuda. Col. Hammond's father being from that place. André, as I have always un- -derstood came down to the Post Road for some distance above the Dutch Church. My wife, Leah Van Tassel, was the only child of Cornelius Van Tassel

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[margin: 1845] 141. and she was the infant taken out of the house in a blanket by a soldier and laid carefully in the snow by a soldier when Van Tassel's house was burnt. The mother distracted was seeking her babe in the flames when the soldier told where the child was. Leah never had a sister and but one brother who on the night of the attack fled for safety half naked to the roof of Van Tassel's house and held on by the chimney from which when the fire began to reach him he jumped to the ground. He escaped that night, but caught a cold of which he never recovered and died of consumption. (Buckhout) Katrina Buckhout, a young girl, was killed in by a Yeager rifleman belonging to a party under Emmerick who were patrolling on the West side of Saw Mill river.