Some half an hour or more afterwards while he was leaning against the back gable end of the house an Irishman named William Dalton came up and accosted Gib- -son: "Gibson, you have threated my life." Gibson replied, "No, I have not." Whereupon Dalton fired and killed him with his musket. May 14, 1781, Delancey's main party crossed the fields and bye-roads to Blenis's ford where the foot mounted behind the horse and passed the river.
Elisha Pulney of Somers - Mr. Wood, of North Castle. Genl. Wm. Greene, of Pines Bridge, was a wealthy farmer who did not belong to the
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militia, but had the soubriquet of General which pleased him. Col. Benjn. Greene of Somers commanded a militia regiment after the Revolutionary war. Eden Hunt, brother of Major Hunt, of Baker Hook, with a party of guides on horseback, at a spot between the Chadeayne farm and Sing Sing was ambuscaded and fired upon by a party of Refugees. He was shot through the body, but recovered." - See Thayer. "During the Revolutionary war and previous to the spring of 1781, when my father left Yorktown for New Rochelle, there was (for a while) a company of foot stationed at O'Blenis's, to guard the ford with a sergeant's guard of ten or twelve men at our house (Chadeaynes) - that is, a picket. The Refugees who were lurking about the neighbouring woods and houses determined to carry off this guard. The company which formed the main guard and the advanced were