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Interview with Chadeayne, Samuel

Macdonald, John. Interview with Chadeayne, Samuel, c.1770-c.1854; (1848-10-20). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 865. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States). Passage 1 of 1 347 words

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October 20th. Samuel Chadeayne of Yorktown, residing with his nephew Leonard Chadeayne: "Eden Hunt, a guide, returning from below with others, was waylaid and shot by some Refugees who were posted for that purpose on a high bank on the south side of the old Sing Sing and Mount Pleasant road. He recovered although shot through the body. - (See Thatcher's Journal.) The precise [spot] where this happened is between Leonard Chadeayne's and Jesse Ryders. I will ascertain of the Underhill family whether Andrè and Smith breakfasted at the house of their ancestor Isaac Underhill, September 23, 1780, and the evidence. With regard to the death of Thomas Gibson in the paper I fur- -nished you with, the Bedford

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Skinners came upon and captured him within a mile of this place (Mr. Leonard Chadeayne's) and captured him. William Dalton, one of the Bedford party, an Irishman and extremely wicked and blood thirsty, said to Gibson whose hands were tied behind him: 'You have threatened to take my life.' 'That is not so,' answered Gibson, 'I never threatened to kill you.' 'Yes,' you did,' replied Dalton, and thereupon shot the poor prisoner dead. The man hanged by Fade Don- -aldson and others, I have always heard, was Abraham Barrett. I have never supposed he was, though he might have been, an Irishman. I don't know what countryman he was. He has been generally known as Brom. Barrett."

William Dalton, one of the Bedford party, an Irishman and extremely wicked and blood thirsty, said to Gibson whose hands were tied behind him: 'You have threatened to take my life.' 'That is not so,' answered Gibson, 'I never threatened to kill you.' 'Yes,' you did,' replied Dalton, and thereupon shot the poor prisoner dead. The man hanged by Fade Don- -aldson and others, I have always heard, was Abraham Barrett. I have never supposed he was, though he might have been, an Irishman. I don't know what countryman he was. He has been generally known as Brom. Barrett."

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