Returning past my father's house on the Cross Road from Mamaroneck to Quaker Meeting House, they roused us from bed in order to get some water for the wounded. They advanced in such perfect silence that nobody knew of it and surprised sentry and guard. The cross road which now lies leads from Heathcote's Hill to the Quaker Meeting house was then a mere farm road extending about three quarters of a mile west of the [margin: Heathcote's Hill.]

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turnpike. It was made for the ac- commodation of two tiers of farm lots laid out on each side of it. The killed were buried on Heathcote's heights, but covered so slightly that the dogs scratched off the dirt and attacked the dead bodies so that the neighbours turned out and covered them again -- throwing stones upon the holes made by the dogs. Hazlet advanced from the south. The White Plains and Boston roads were well guarded as the enemy was expected from that direction alone. William Lounsbury, a bold deter- mined man. By General Howe's proclamation if anyone enlisted sixty men he should have a Captain's commission. A counter proclamation from the Ame- rican Congress (?) decreed death to anyone caught enlisting for the enemy. Lounsbury was 50 or 60 years old, I believe, and bold. He came from below, and a sloop was to wait for his men below Delancey's

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Neck and take them over to Long Island. Lounsbury told his wife to send for Joseph Purdy and tell him he was among the rocks of Great Lot. (Purdy came, and Lounsbury sent him to such roya- -lists as he thought he could induce to enlist with him.) Purdy told the men where Lounsbury was and he persuaded them to enlist. Purdy proved a traitor and informed the principal whigs of a [Mamaroneck] - viz.