You see five or six bullet holes yet remaining in the doors and panel work. Greene, a large powerful
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man, met the enemy at the north door and attempted to defend it sword in hand. He struck at Totten, who was foremost, with all his might and would have killed him on the spot had not the blow been parried by one of the Refugees. As it was Totten was stunned and wounded. Greene in the conflict received several shots and was lamentably cut and hacked with the sabre. He then asked for quarter and it was granted - then for his parole which was refused. They told him he must go with them to Morrisania, and mounted him behind a dragoon for about a mile and a half or more, and then fell off where you descend a hill a little north west of the Widow Griffen's. Finding that he was dying they did not attempt a further removal, but left him by the road side
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with his head upon a bank of earth. The Davenport House was built by my grandfather in 1773, and painted in 1776 - on the last year it was by mistake dated. In some respects its interior has been altered. It is a double house standing upon a slight declivity, two stories high, a hall through the centre of the first storey and the rear of the second story opening upon the ground through a door which now remains. Greene and Flagg occupied the northwest bedroom of the second story (which now is partitioned into two bedrooms) sleeping in the same bed. The Refugees fired into their bedroom through the west window which is now closed up, and through the north door which remains as it was.