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1846 November 24th Abraham Davis: - "Totten once went above the Croton, and took some cattle from the active Whigs which he entrusted to a small party, returning himself by another direction. John McFadian was of the party, and they asked for more men, being afraid of an attack from superior numbers, but Totten refused more saying they were enough. Below and near Tarrytown they were attacked by superior numbers and the cattle were recaptured. McFadion made for the woods and was followed and attacked by a militia man, but he pointed his gun and
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said: "One step further and you are a dead man! [Was this Samuel Lyon's and Garrison's party?] There were never much amount of cattle or stores at [White Plains] except in 1776 and 1778. The small number of cattle and the few barrels of flour &c, &c, taken in 1777 by the Refugees may have been either at [White Plains] or Wright's Mills. Tarleton lay at my father's once in the summer for, I think, the most part of two days, - his men cutting grass for their horses from our meadow on the Bronx. Some of them were Yager horse, and some, probably, belonged to the 17th Light Dragoons. The horses of most of the company were alike in color. They were the finest horses I ever saw. A party of Sheldon's (a reconnoitring party probably) came down from Salem by the Robbin's Mills road by Nathaniel (?) Purdy's within sight of our house. Tarleton's men were at dinner. They immediately turned out and pursued as far as Bedford, but though