considered himself ill treated - He advanced his own money to pay the troops when the authorities, could not command it and was not refunded afterwards. Mrs. Ronalds of Fishkill, a daughter of Colonel Holmes. Mrs. Elizabeth Trowbridge lives at Sing Sing where with Mrs. Coyler her son in law. Mr. Samuel Lawrence, near Cross river. Mr. Samuel Barrett lives 2 ½ miles from Bedford.
Mr. Jeremy Reynolds lives near Mr. Barrett's one and a half miles from Bedford.
When the British burnt Bedford they advanced no further East than where the School house stands about a quarter of a mile from Bedford village. Here they posted a guard while they burnt
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the village. There were no troops but militia at Bedford when it was burnt. No men in the village when it was burnt. All in the militia. Blatchford preached about a year at Bedford when he first came over. Captain Richard Sackett was from Bedford. Tarleton advanced and retreated by the West road through North Castle. When they burnt Bedford they advanced by the west road and retreated by the Post road.
[The following "Memory" is, with few exceptions, substantially the same as the foregoing one (of Mrs. Holmes). J.E.]
Nov. 25. 1844. Mrs. Patty Holmes: I was born in Bedford, and lived in the Revolutionary war a short distance out of the village [of Bedford?] - east of it. I am now almost ninety. I was a grown up girl in the war. Poundridge was burnt on Friday, and Bedford a week from the next Sunday - that is, nine