Nathaniel Merritt lived in Peekskill, was an influential man among the tories who assembled and deliberated at his house. They threatened, and were so numerous that my father and uncle, Henry and Joseph Strang, went to Connec-

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76. ticut and brought in 600 Connecticut troops who disarmed the tories, placed the arms and accoutrements in the Parsonage House for safe keeping, and a queer set of arms they were - old firelocks, rusty pistols, worn out [?] espontoons, &c ancient swords," &c &c.

When the British horse surprised Colonel Drake at Crompond, a British party crossed Vail's ford about two miles east of Pine's Bridge and advanced upon a crooked road commencing at the Ford and running first northerly, then Westerly and southerly and coming in to the Pine's Bridge and Crompond road, near Delavan's house, and a little south and west of it. This was done that they might not be discovered. They retreated after burning the Church straight back to Pine's bridge.

Andrew Miller's was between two and three miles west of Crompond village.

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77. Hannah Sackett, wife of Stephen Delancey, was on horseback escaping from the burning of the church, and was overtaken about one mile from Crompond northerly by some horse men who robbed her of her shoe buckles and re- -quested her to dismount. She refused, and exclaimed "Is this the way you treat females? I will inform your superiors. Where is your commander?" She appeared. "I am the wife of Stephen Delancey. Is this proper treatment for her? Give me an escort to a place of safety." The Commander on hearing Delancey's name gave her an escort. She didn't tell that she was daughter of Mr. Sackett, the Whig Presbyterian minister at Crompond. [margin: See 106.] Col. Green and Major Flagg are buried in the same grave, in the south-east corner of the Burying Ground at Crompond, and Brom.

Where is your commander?" She appeared. "I am the wife of Stephen Delancey. Is this proper treatment for her? Give me an escort to a place of safety." The Commander on hearing Delancey's name gave her an escort. She didn't tell that she was daughter of Mr. Sackett, the Whig Presbyterian minister at Crompond. [margin: See 106.] Col. Green and Major Flagg are buried in the same grave, in the south-east corner of the Burying Ground at Crompond, and Brom. Dyckman lies near the same spot.