The officer it is said shed tears when he read the letter and conformed to his superiors command with great reluctance. Burr's Head- -quarters were then at Young's house."
Decr. 9th Robert Miller: "I witnessed the battle of White Plains from Mount Misery which my father then owned. After the battle part of the Ameri- -can army retreated through the fields along the Bronx to the heights near Moses Fowler's. After his affair with Mosier, Kipp retired through White Plains
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where he halted for a time. Smarting under the pain of his wound and the mortification of his discomfiture he appeased his rage by tearing in pieces a pale fence at Hatfield's (or near the Court House). This attack on Mosier was made on a Sunday morning and they returned through White Plains on the same day. Sunday, Dec. 2nd. 1781.
Captain Benjamin Ogden was one of the Captains in Emmerick's Refugee Corps. Was an uncommonly large and powerful man, of great strength & courage. When a prisoner once at North Castle and effected his escape by knocking down three sentinels. When he returned from England after the war he brought with him a girl of sixteen, very handsome, to whom he promised but never performed marriage. By him she had one child. After his death, his children brought about a marriage between her and a
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man named Holmes. A numerous and poor family was the result of this marriage who lived in North Castle in great misery - Holmes being a lazy, shiftless man. Before the Revolutionary War Ogden fought with Gilbert Hatfield of White Plains and got the better of him. McCord's Hill, where Tarleton was encamped for several days with his legion, is very near to Elijah Davis's house.