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Daniel Deveau lived by the road, and Frederick Deveau in the fields. Three Indians were killed at Tippett's brook. The battle was between Mile Square road and Tippett brook across Courtland's ridge which was east of Tippett's brook. There are two ridges called Courtland's, one east of and the other west of Tippett's brook. Fort Independence was on General Montgomery's farm which was north of and adjacent to Tetard's. The Yager dragoons were formed out of Colonel de Wormb's infantry and were only one company, mounted on American horses. Capt. Ronw ^Rouw belonged to Wormbs, and [X] a patrol was made every day by order of Wormb who lay in front of Dyck- -man's at Kingsbridge leaving at day --light - eighty or a hundred in number - marching from Kingsbridge up to Mile Square road, then across Valentines hill and so on over the Saw Mill river
[X]see origl. p. 67
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and Hoghill where three of Pray's men were who had been left behind from some mistake by Pray who was over the day before. (This took place sometime in the summer or fall of 1781, and before Cornwallis surrender.) Rouw marched with a band of his men, and the three [X1] fired and mortally wounded him in the body. He was taken in Mrs. Babcock's horse and chair as far as Van Courtland's big house where he died. Mrs. Day and Miss Fowler [X2], her granddaughter, the daughter of one Pescel Fowler, came and were with Rouw till he died.