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<left margin> Mary Beagle - Remembers Davenports house - Negroes killed at Widow Grif- -fens. - <left margin>
October 19th. Mary Beagle of Somers: "I remember when Daven- -port's house was taken, and Colonel Greene and Major Flagg killed. The Rhode Island negroes who lay about Pines Bridge were very much cut to pieces. They lay for the most part at the widow Griffen's and widow Remsen's and Captain David Montross's, on the north side of the Croton. There was a splendid military funeral of the officers who fell a few days afterwards. When the French army lay here, officers and privates all conducted with the greatest propriety, paying liberally for everything they bought or took in hard money - the soldiers cutting crowns and dollars into halves, quarters and eights, in order to make change.
They lay for the most part at the widow Griffen's and widow Remsen's and Captain David Montross's, on the north side of the Croton. There was a splendid military funeral of the officers who fell a few days afterwards. When the French army lay here, officers and privates all conducted with the greatest propriety, paying liberally for everything they bought or took in hard money - the soldiers cutting crowns and dollars into halves, quarters and eights, in order to make change.