The picket guard consisted of twelve men. Armands horse came up screaming and shouting and cut to pieces six or seven of them, but made no prisoners, retreating soon after. Captn Pray of the Water guards after the war was second keeper of the Greenwich State prison and while there shot a convict who attempted to escape. Emmerick flogged his men severely for stealing from the rebels and for other offences, and would sometimes cry
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while the punishment was going on, declaring he meant it all for their good. Once, one of his men after running the gauntlet, leaped up, clapped his hands and exclaimed: "I am now a better man than ever I was!" Colonel Emmerick immediately put his hand in his pocket and gave him a guinea.
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Octr. 1st. Augustus Cregier - (continued from page 44 of original and p 54 of this copy): "While Colonel Tarleton's Quarters were at our house I saw him often. He was a handsome, black-eyed, black-haired military looking man, not below, but rather above the middle size, very straight and muscular, made a fine appearance when mounted, and rode an uncommonly fine horse. Had the Indians in 1781 been a few minutes later, Captn. Daniel Williams and his rangers would have fallen into the ambuscade. As it was he escaped with difficulty, being hotly pursued. Old Jacob Moore had two sons, Blaze, who after his death kept the Blue Bell, and Baltus, who was a tobacconist and accumulated a large fortune. If there be a man of that family now living in the Bowery, he must be a son of Blaze and a grandson of old Jacob.