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Decr 4th Daniel Halsted, of Harrison, and wife: "Charity, wife of Major Thomas Hungerford was my aunt - her maiden name having been Halsted. She died two or three years before the Major, and the inscription upon her tomb stone in the Halsted burying ground adjacent to Purchase Quaker burying ground will show her age. The Major requested that no inscription might be placed upon his tomb, and none was in consequence. At his funeral, a sermon was preached by some Quaker speaker. He was inclined to Quakerism in the latter part of his life. At his death bed he grieved very much to think of having been engaged in the war and of many things he had done. He was born in Horseneck (Connecticut) near King St, a little below the village of Glenville, and just east of the State lines. Isaac Webbers and a party of
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Skinners came to his house to get a large sum of money which had just been paid him. He refused to give up the money, and they thereupon took him to Hatfield's at White Plains, where they abused and kicked him under the kitchen table to which they tied and secured him. In the night he managed to get loose and escaped by the window taking part of the sash with him on his head. He then went below and joined the British. My father Joseph Halsted and mine (Mrs. Halsted) William Hunt both paid black rate often which was enforced by Colonel Thomas.
He refused to give up the money, and they thereupon took him to Hatfield's at White Plains, where they abused and kicked him under the kitchen table to which they tied and secured him. In the night he managed to get loose and escaped by the window taking part of the sash with him on his head. He then went below and joined the British. My father Joseph Halsted and mine (Mrs. Halsted) William Hunt both paid black rate often which was enforced by Colonel Thomas.