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

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