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Interview with Underhill, Sophia Haight

Macdonald, John. Interview with Underhill, Sophia Haight, 1766-1849; (1848-10-16). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 949. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026. 252 words

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October 16th Mrs. Sophia Underhill aged eighty three, born Haight: "I think the fight between Captain Totten and Colonel Benjamin Greene when the latter was wounded in the head occurred in the vicinity of where John Smith afterwards kept Tavern -- perhaps a little north. I was born about one mile east of Clarks corner. Captain Samuel Kipp once wounded amain severely somewhere in Bedford or North Castle, but I don't know where. He stopped on his return from at Jacob Underhill's, afterwards my father in law, and told all the particulars, but I don't remember them.

-- At one time the Skinners drove off my fathers stock six or seven cows and all his sheep about two hundred.

-- After the battle of White Plains they made a hospital of our house for about a week, when the wounded were

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removed to North Castle Church. Charles Leggett was born at West Farms or West Chester, but when a small boy was taken by an uncle Joseph Leggett of North Castle where he was brought up. The Kipps probably induced him to join DeLancey's. He was a bold, resolute man, middle sized and strong. I think there was no fighting when Major Lyon was taken by Totten.

October 16th Samuel Chadeayne: "I think Fanny Totten must be wrong in insisting, as she does, that the Refugees advanced in front of the house when they surprised Davenports house. I had always heard before that they came up on the north west