Hopkins crossed the fields, Emmerick pushed up the Post-road intending to head them him and cut off his retreat, but when he approached the Yager infantry they mistook him for an enemy and fired upon his troop. The confusion caused by this mistake, much facilitated Hopkins' escape who regained the Post-road above the bridge with three prisoners and four horses, and thinking themselves then safe, approached the river and discharged their carbines at the Yager infantry on the opposite bank. But Emmerick, hitherto baffled determined on a further pursuit. The Yager horse having joined him his Cavalry became more numerous than Hopkins' party, whom he pursued for three miles. In the course of this pursuit some of Hopkins' men at different times were on the point of falling into the enemy's hands their horses tiring; when Hopkins or Pike charged and rescued them. Some horses tiring the men rode among bushes

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20. & escaped. My father's house was about a quarter of a mile from the White Plains and Tarrytown road, and a half mile from the Post-road. The brook where Andre was taken was called Clark's Kill. At the capture of Young's house a party of the British diverged easterly from the Sprain road and made their advance by a hollow which crosses the West Plains road about one hundred yards east of the Sprain (?) road, and so took behind Thompson's flanks. Thompson's out -guard was at Grendahl Allaire's on the east side of the Sprain road about half a mile south of Youngs. This outpost was eight or ten in number - a sergeant's guard and supposed at first they could defend themselves, but were surrounded and all taken but one who escaped on Snow shoes across the fields. Thompson had 80 or 100 snow shoes, and was urged either to put them on his men and move against the enemy, or to fall back upon the advancing [margin: White Plains Allaire's]