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Septr. 4th. Joshua DeVoe, of Greenburg, aged ninety, - May last: "Immediately after Champanois death, Major Thomas Strang of Peekskill with 200 or 300 men went down to Mile square at Frederick Riche's where there was a ball, and fired in at the windows while the company were on the floor. I was wounded in the right heel. (He showed the scar.) Musket balls passed through the petticoats of two wo- -men present - one, Elvin Hatfield's wife, and the other, the widow Rich. This was always considered a very cowardly act. I and Charles Dusenbury were present and saw the Marks (Mertz) affair. Dusenbury said "it was like blacksmith's hammering a bar of iron." Emmerick lay among the cat-rocks. Stroang was hung a little south of Gilbert Underhill's house on the Sealy farm without judge or jury. Capt. Marks (Lt. Mertz?) was very badly cut across the face but recovered. I saw
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four men lying dead side by side - Hessian horsemen, I do not know how many, were killed. The Edgar lane fight was in the afternoon. The Hessians sheepskins over their saddles. I remember when Col. Philipse was taken off to New England. Major Strang said he thought and was informed that the room at Frederick Rich's was full of Refugees.
Mertz?) was very badly cut across the face but recovered. I saw - Hufeland Index Page 491 - four men lying dead side by side - Hessian horsemen, I do not know how many, were killed. The Edgar lane fight was in the afternoon. The Hessians sheepskins over their saddles. I remember when Col. Philipse was taken off to New England. Major Strang said he thought and was informed that the room at Frederick Rich's was full of Refugees.