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November 5th Stephen Hall, of Mamaroneck: - "When Keeler and Lockwood surprised Hatfield in January 1780, the Refugees over- -took them on their retreat near Dr. [Riely's] and, charging, took some prisoners. Another part of them was overtaken here at [Mama- -roneck], and took to the ice (the harbor being then frozen over) when the Refugee horse pursued and cut them to pieces. This was in the midst of a snow storm, I believe. The British army, in 1779, lay for some weeks on the high ground from the Great Lots to where Nathaniel Brown lived about two miles from Mamaroneck village.
[Stephen Hall contd. In the original this subject breaks off abruptly on page 75 - is then continued on page 77, and ends on p. 76.]
It was in the summer of 1776, that William Lounsberry [X] came to Mamaroneck to enlist a company of men for the royal cause. The British army then lay at Staten Island. A good many from our neighborhood en=- -isted under him. He and his party were unarmed and lay in the Great Lots, one and a half or two miles from Mamaroneck village to the west
[X] sometimes written Lounsbury.
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west of the White Plains road. He had or was to have a Captain's commission if he succeeded in raising a company. Lounsbury (?) was a bold, enterprising, determined. The party that was against him was commanded by Capt (?) Daniel Townsend of New York (Rye Neck?) I think, and they meant to kill him, as I have always heard. They hunted him from his place of concealment among the rocks, and refused quarter as I have heard and believe (shooting and then bayonetting him). He and his men were furnished every day with provisions by his friend in Mamaroneck village.