When Colonel Greene was attacked at Croton, he said to the soldiers in the house as the Refugees advanced: "Fire away, boys! They are only a party of Cowboys!" Miss Mary Kniffen [X1], who lost her life in 177 , was my cousin, and lived at Sniffen's hill [X2]. She was going to New York with a party of five or six who were
[X1] This name is sometimes written "Griffen," and "Sniffen." J.E.
[X2] Sometimes written - "Griffen's Hill."
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driving cattle below and had not gone as far as the bridge at Rye Neck over Stoney Brook (Pocotsenock [X] ?) (by the mill on that brook) when they were fired upon by a party under one Maynard, and she was killed. She was taken into Mr. Bloomer's house now standing on the north of the road near the entrance of the lane leading to Deall's Mills where she breathed her last in a few moments. It was said she was going down to be married to Jacob Tier, a very respect- -table butcher. Her death was always considered an accident by all except her relatives. Maynard's party said they did not know there was a woman with the party. Huggeford took Colonel Wells by making a circuit and coming upon him from an unexpected quarter. One of Huggerford's [men] had the adroitness to creep up so close to a sentinel that, when the sentinel was relieved, he heard the countersign. Wish that knowledge