1847. Extracts from "Memoirs of his Own Time," by Lieut General Count Mathieu Dumas pp. 1-8 - (of Originals) Extracts from the Abbé Robin's Travels thro' N. America. pp. 9-11. (Ibid)

Augt 24th Sylvanus Miller, at Mr Lyons on the hill east of Byram and Port Chester.

Augt 24th (Tuesday). Dr. Nehemiah U. Tompkins, of No. 151 Bowery: "My grandfather Underhill, and all his family and connections were Royalists. He and my father were guides to the British army October 27th & 28th 1776. My father said that the British Light horse decided the battle of Chatterton Hill by a charge. In 1781, some of the French lay at Chatterton Hill but the main body encamped on my uncle Isaac Tompkins's farm. The French park of cannon were on a smooth piece of ground west of my uncle's old house and towards Col. Odell's. The French soldiers made use of my fathers horses which so provoked him that he [page break] 2. seized and shook one of them who screamed for assistance. His comrades came to his aid and my father threw them about and knocked some of them down. More came, and the French soldiers, now very much excited raised the cry of "Refugee!" "Refugee!" My father then pulled a stake out of the fence and defended himself for sometime, keeping them at bay, and knocked several of them down. He was at last overpowered, and taken by the enraged soldiers before Rochambeau. The French soldiers wanted to kill him, but Rochambeau pleased with his hardihood, after a short confinement discharged him, first however making him promise never again to attack the French army!"