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Novr. 20th Benjamin Acker, (at Stymats Fishers): "I saw service during the Revolutionary war, and in the latter part of it was employed as a ferryman at King's Ferry where we made use of Scows, flatboats, and Pattianges. I ferried Smith and Andre across the river, September 22d 1780, and was a witness on Smith's trial. In 1781, when the French army lay at White Plains, I was employed
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as a waterman at Dobbs Ferry. Once in, I think, the month of October - but in what year I don't remember, I was en- -gaged in watching a British frigate which lay off Sparta, in company with John Paulding, John Requa, David Martling, and Isaac Lent. We lay in ambush in the bushes above above Judge Kenney's place Presently a boat from the frigate approached us with nine men and a woman on board. Not wishing to hurt the woman we let them land, then rose and fired upon them. They made fight and would not surrender till we had fired twice. We killed two, wounded two, made prisoners of the other five, and let the women go. I belonged to the guard that was watching the road near Roswell's corner about two miles below Clark's corner, when the British went up to burn Crompond in 1779. We hid. It was a dark night. About two hun- -dred horse passed, and then at some distance came the infantry. I don't know