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
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not being able to find her, they took our black boy and whipped him until he confessed where she was hidden, and then they made prize of her taking her to some place in King Street where they concealed her until they could make sale of her. Captain John Thomas, nephew of the general, dis- -covered where she was kept, and he and some others conspired together and stole her. They took her with great care into the woods in a sequestered spot up By- -ram river where they hid her securely until Caleb Green discovered the place of her concealment, when he stole her one night and rode her down to Morrisania. He arrived at Head- -quarters before Colonel DeLancey was up in the morning, and sent word that he had brought the Colonel a very fine mare with a request that he would come out and see her. The Refugee commander returned for answer that Green must