"Alleby says the enemy lost 14 men in the action at Wards; 6 of those they carried off wounded died between Wards & Williams; the 7th dead as soon as they had got to Valentines; that every commissioned Officer, save one Ensign, was killed; (?) - that on their arrival at Kingsbridge the commanding officer of that post came out of the door of his lodgings, when the prisoners were paraded, & says, "Well, you have got a parcel of the d-d rebels, have you?" "Yes," replied the surviving Ensign, "but we have paid d-d dear for them; - I am the only Officer left alive.:" - To which there was no reply made." &c. &c. pg. 445 / "May 9th 1777." "We have reason to believe that the Tories to & Northward headed by Capt.
McAlpin will be quelled in a short time &c." p. 454. / "Eben Hazard - to - John McKesson." "North Castle. Novr. 15th. 1776." "Dr. Sir \ The enemy has got below Dobb's Ferry; to …. a few days ago a few regulars landed a little to the Eastward of Stanford & stole 2 cows; a Tory conducted them to his house. &c. &c. p. 458. / "Genl. Israel Putnam to the Prest of the N. Y. Convention." "Head Quarters, Peekskill, June 21st, 1777." Sir \ You cannot be unacquainted that there are in the neighbourhood of the enemy a large number of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, &c. The militia of Stamford & Horseneck, sensible of the exposed situation of the live stock within reach of the enemy, drove off from New Rochelle & Each Chester, upwards of 100 head of cattle, with sheep, &c." ….
"I have written to the committee, under whose direction I suppose they will fall, to detain all the creatures brought off as above, till I shd. receive the advice of the convention of this State respecting them." &c. p.461. / Answer to the abov.