Anderson, to hear that you are opposed to our cause." My father assured him such was not the case and gave as a reason why he would not take up arms that he could not consistently to do so after the oath he had taken, but said that in heart he was inclined to be a whig, &c. He was moreover infirm of body being rup- -tured. This explanation was entirely satisfactory to Washington who assured my father that he properly appreciated and approved of his motive, and told him if he was ever molested to apply to him for protection. We were never molested while the American army
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remained near White Plains. I had a half brother named Jonathan who at the beginning of the revolution raised a company of minutemen, but someone was promoted over him and he immediately went below with nineteen of his men and received a captaincy in one of the Regular Provincial Regiments, but which I do not know. After the war he was put upon the half pay list, and went to Nova Scotia. During the Revolutionary war there was one Caleb Green from King Street in Connecticut, near Byram river who traded with the enemy, and was often below at Morrisania where he took cattle and poultry and horses and became well acquainted with Colonel DeLancy. My father then had a very fine mare which he kept concealed. Isaac Webbers, Dent Banks, and a party of skinners once came to our house for the mare, and