house to the road they built a round house of stone which has recently been removed by me. I don't know for what purpose they used it. There was once an alarm which proved false that the French artillery was fired at the aforesaid place where it lay, and the army all turned out. These facts I heard mostly from my mother. Her first child was born at the French camp, on (I believe) the 9th of July 1781. The French general at my [grand]fathers permitted the family to remain up stairs.

Septr. 7th. Jackson Odell -- " It was Acker's slope (that is, smooth fields now owned by a family named Acker, and descending towards the Saw-mill river road just above Mr. Howland's) where the Refugee horse