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November 6th. Abraham Davis: "When Kipp passed through White Plains and pushed for Purchase Street to attack Mosier, I was at Hatfield's Tavern. Totten accompanied Kipp to White Plains with an infantry force about equal in number to Kipp's horse, and proposed to him to mount a foot soldier behind each horseman so as to be supported by infantry, but this Kipp declined. Had Totten's proposition been accepted Mosier must have been taken as was always thought. Kipp was harsh and Totten kind in his treatment of prisoners. Kipp advanced up on Mosier, I think, by the Joseph Anderson road, and Totten with his force went above northerly. Totten was up, once up, and on his return by the Tuckahoe road tracked
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a party of Skinners who were going below to plunder, through a light snow which had just fallen, to the widow Sherwood's house near Tuckahoe Church where he surprised and killed or took the whole party. General Lincoln's Head Quarters were at my fathers - (Was this in 1778 or '82?) Tarleton with the Legion Cavalry were once taking their dinner at a house near my father's where now lives - their horses standing ready saddled and bridled, and the men taking their repast from their nice tin dishes, when it was announced that a party of Sheldon's was at hand. The troopers were in the saddle in an instant and pursued the American party, which was small, almost at Bedford, but succeeded only in taking one horseman's cap.