We then proceeded about three fourths of a mile further towards Tarrytown, and after resting a while in a hay barrack, resumed our march, and arrived in the night at [Romer's] Jacob Powers situated a quarter of a mile from the White Plains and Tarrytown road, and about a mile and an half from the Post Road where we took supper. At Romer's we took advice and held a council of war. We enquired about and ascertained the Refugees paths and places of deposit for stolen goods & for greater chance of success agreed to go in two parties, one to watch the Post Road

[marg: 1845] and the other to lie in ambush three hundred or four hundred yards off among the bushes, along a path or war -road which the Refugees frequently travelled with cattle and stolen goods. We agreed to signalize and assist each other in case of need, and to share among us (that is among the seven) all the gain we should make. We were at Salem, every other week off duty, and it was on one of these alternate weeks that we applied to Captain Baker and our other commanding officers for leave to go down near Tarrytown in order to take from the Refugees and Cow Boys cattle and plunder they might be conducting below, and to work for pocket money. Our officers had full knowledge and approved of our enterprize and we proceeded with the entire consent. The residue of the night in question we passed at Jacob