Gill leaped his horse over a fence to meet him half way and their swords actually crossed when several of Bearmore's men spur- -red on their commander, and Gill, finding himself likely to have several antagonists, withdrew. Bearmore was too much upon his guard to be drawn within the American lines. Dole, first a sergeant and then a lieutenant of Sheldon's, was Sheriff after the war of a county at or near Albany [Rensselaer Co]. Captain Ebenezer Theall, of Delan- -cy's, was returning from an excursion when a little west of Round hill, he was ambushed by a party who fired and
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killed him. His party left his body, retired a little on the road they were advancing and then retreated in another direction. Theall's body was afterwards brought to Rye and interred. He left a daughter who now lives at Horseneck and the widow of Jabez Hobby. In the winter of 1777 and 1778 a company of Sheldon's was quartered at my father's (Samuel Brown). I had two uncles, Roger Brown and Nehemiah Brown who lived near Round Hill. Colonel White was intimate with both, and it was probably at one of their houses that he was when nearly surprised by Tarleton in 1779. Lieut. Fredrick Stephenson, of Stephenson's Rangers, commanded the party that took Delancey in 1777, below West Farms. Delancey was ensconced under a bed where Stephenson discovered him, and said: "Come out, Jimmy [X]!"
[X] Written Jimmy in original.