Then they went through Saxton's woods to Benjamin Cornell's in Maroneck whom they whipped and extorted money from. After leaving Cornell's house they were overtaken by a party from above who had pursued them to regain the plunder, and all the cowboys, but one, were killed. Soon after this John White (Israel's father) and a party of three or four went below to East? Chester and New Rochelle? And plundered a great quantity of bedding, clothes &c. They were all on horseback, but were pursued by the Refugees and were overtaken east of Abijah Haviland's or the Buckley farm, near Sandy Brook in Purchase Street. All made their escape but White who was overtaken and shot off his horse just as he had crossed the brook.
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After the battle of White Plains probably in 1779, a cornet and six men stopped all night at my father's, and early the next morning went to White Plains to reconnoitre. The German Yagers were then at White Plains. They went as far as Dick's Tannery, or rather as far as the flat east of Dick's. Seeing a strong detachment near where the Court House was, they wheeled about to return. A Yager, resting his rifle by the house of Isaac Oakley (Willis's afterwards) shot a private soldier, one of the six, who I think were of Sheldon's. He was brought to our house on horseback being severely wounded, having been shot in the breast, the ball passing quite through the body, and being held only by the skin He was brought into our house and placed in one of the front rooms. His blood flowed profusely through the bed and