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October 22d Prince Gedney (slave), of White Plains: "I will be 92 on the 16th of December next. Elijah Haines was a private in the Queen's Rangers, &c. and was killed in the attack upon Wards House. It was Bartholemew Haines who was engaged in spiking the cannon at Kings- -bridge, although some of his brothers might have assisted. Thomas and James Haines brother of Elijah and Bartholemew were both grenadiers in one of the British regiments which went south where they were both killed. In the summer of 1781, the French cavalry lay in the long lot, directly east of where James Tompkins afterwards built his dwelling house and where he died. The French horse encamped there in the Long Lot upon Chatterton Hill, for about six weeks. - Captain Absalom Gedney then occupied what was afterwards the James Tomp- -kins farm. He (Capt. Absalom) married
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my masters widow and I went to live with him there. I lived there previously to and after, as well as during 1781," &c.
[Octr. 22d Previously to calling on Prince Gedney this day, I stopped at Mr. James Willis's and saw his wife and Miss Theta June, &c. This was on my return from East Chester and Mamaroneck.]
October 23d Prince Gedney of White Plains, said: "Moses, the oldest son of Edmund Ward, Jonathan Purdy, and James Tompkins were guides at the battle of White Plains for the British army. Jonathan Purdy was with the British army on the Danbury Expedition. Colonel Thomas and Cornelius Oakley were both concerned in driving cattle below towards the close of the war and also (as was said) during the middle part of the war. They managed in this