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1848. 1848. May 6th Donald McLean: "John Kane of Fredricksburg was a merchant and farmer extensively engaged in business, and a man of very considerable consequence. He and Malcolm Morrison and Major Alexander Grant (killed at Fort Montgomery) and Charles Cullen all of Fredericksburg married daughters of Priest Kent of South East - two Irish and two Scotchmen. Kane's two sons, John and
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Charles went off with him. His daughter Patty married Gilbert Livingston of the lower manor. Kane was a very polite man, edu- -cated, as was said, for a catholic priest - He horsewhipped his children sometimes, but this was discipline he was brought up to. Colonel Cook's house at Danbury was (almost the only active whig whose dwelling) preserved. He told his family to give the British the best entertainment they could, provisions, &c. - Dinner &c was furnished when they came, and they destroyed nothing. Col. Barclay told me that Major Alexr Grant who was killed at Fort Montgomery was sent for by the commander (Col. C. or Genl Clinton) who wanted to give some commands to him. He went, received orders, but unfortunately returned by a different route (a shorter and more ex- -peditious one probably), and was killed. He was a Scotchman, and lived on the Paine and N. Howe's ^Howland Farm, &c. Alexander Menzies, son of Major Thomas Menzies, an
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officer with his father in Arnold's legion, but John was then an infant. Major Alexander Menzies lived at Fredericksburg on the Cornell Farm. He was a Scotchman and royalist and died on Long Island. Capt. Duncan Campbell had a very fine farm of 300 acres of the N.E. end of Robinson's Patent. He went below.