Captain [X2] Armand surprised (in 1779 (?) a Picket Guard of Colonel Wormb's Yager's at Frederick [Van Courtland's] on Tippett's Hill, and killed and cut to pieces a good many, but took no prisoners. When the Yagers horse deserted they formed Armand's corps. DeLancey's Headquarters during part of the war were at Madam Morris's house where Gouverneur Morris's house now stands. In July 1781, General Lincoln, or rather Captain Jonathan Lawrence, landed on the farm of Isaac (Lawrence?) about two miles north of Kingsbridge where Thomas Ludlow now lives, and marched to Tetard's hill where a severe skirmish ensured. Scannell's brigade
[X1] Spuyten Duyvel Creek? [X2] Colonel. ?
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was piloted by William Green from Hoghill down to General Lincoln, and his (Green's) horse was shot on Hoghill by Emmerick's party who were there that night. Emmerick gained the bank of the river at Phillips's house, where he probably had staid all night, and retreated to Spitend [Spuyten Duyvel?] Creek. John Cook, tavern keeper, at Paparinimo, and John Corbie of the city of New York spiked the cannon at or near Fort Independence. (Probably the second party mentioned by the prisoner Haines &c.) General Oliver de Lancey's house which was burnt stood, I think, near the French Tanneries and a little south of them, and near the White Fort being on the banks of the river. Colonel Hatfield commanded he party that pursued Captain Daniel Williams to Croton in '83. - Seven or eight prisoners taken at the