We (that is, the guides) halted, but Washington and Rochambeau went on just as before. We then guided the army to near Kingsbridge through the fields of Fordham nearly in a direct line. Rocham- -beau was a small man - Lauzun a thick set, stout man, more like a Dutchman. I knew Captain Althouse of Em- -merick's. He had a son named John. - When Emmerick was a little by the head he would say to his dragoons: "Now, my
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Bull-dogs, when you hear me call 'Rouse!' or 'Turn Out!' mount for your lives and follow me!" The Commissary's Quarters were in James Morris's Locust Orchard (or where the Orchard now is) opposite Deveau's Point. - The West Chester Church is the same building that stood there in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. C[orsa] is mistaken in saying it was of stone. There was a stone jail, however, in West Chester, which Hull burnt down when he set the prisoners free. (?) Fort Independence was not garrisoned during the war latter years of the war. There was no road during the Revolutionary war leading from Fort No. 8., or from Deveau's Point direly to West Farms, and no bridge on the Bronx below DeLancey's. I agree with Mr. Robert Morris in relation to the roads, bridges, sites of
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the Morris houses, &c. The old Mill on Mill Bridge, I think, is a quarter of a mile below James Morris's gate or thereabouts. I don't recollect the burning of the Refugee settlement, or where it was, or the sites of Redoubts Nos. 1. 2. 3. & 4. Williams's Bridge is northeast of Kingsbridge. I don't remember the uniform of Em- -merick's, Barnes's, or Althouse's, nor any thing about Captain Pray, Romer, Anna Fowler, commander of the Yagerhorse, or Colonel Armand's surprise of Wormb's outpost.