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Sept.30 Jackson Odell: Captain Pray, as I have always understood was a Rhode Islander. Col. John Odell's famous gray horse presented to him by Governor Van Courtland broke loose and escaped on the surprise of Captain Williams at Orsers house, but running northerly for Colbergh was recovered. Gen. Vaughan was encamped at Odells hill for Six (?) weeks, in the course of which time Odells orchard was cut down except one or two trees, about one thousand bushels of wheat destroyed in the sheaf and his fat hogs killed for the army. For this last, that is the hogs, he was afterwards when confined in the Sugar House, fully paid. This must have occurred in the Fall of 1776. (?) The Dyckman family take the
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baptismal name of Jacob from Governer Leisler. Wright Carpenter the fighting Quaker was a Lieutenant in Captain Hobby's company and Colonel Tho- -mas's regiment. He was on very bad terms with his family in consequence of taking up arms. On Honeywell's excursion to Mor- -risania on the fourth of March 1782, Colonel John Odell was with Major Woodbridge on the East chester road when he placed his men, infantry from New- -England, in ambush behind a barn. Odell advised him to place them in the barn and to throw the double doors open when the enemy came up, but he persisted in putting them behind the building. When the enemy approached with their vanguard of horse, the Yank- -kees could not be prevented from peeping and the ambuscade being thus discovered the horsemen all pulled up but one and receiving the fire at a distance escaped unhurt. A private of Delancey's Re-