He asked for a bed and slept awhile first taking off his boots - Kept his men in good order an reproved them severely when turbulent. James Foshey (who belonged to Totten's company) boasted at this time that he could show more rebel blood upon his sword than any of the detachment. DeLancey, on his return from the pursuit of Captain Cushing, stopped at James M Chain's and took breakfast. He slept there a short time with boots and spurs on. Enquiring
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the name of the officer who com- -manded the American detachment and being informed it was Captain Cushing, he exclaimed: "He will one day be General Cushing." The names of those taken up with Jonathan Odell after the battle of White Plains and confined in the sugar house were Abraham Storms and Jacob Storms, Tennis Cronk and Gerritt Lent. They all died but Odell who was taken with the others in the Fall of '76 and returned. Mrs Rebecca Odell, mother of General Odell was the bearer of proposals of marriage on the part of Colonel Guest (Gist) to the Widow Babcock who declined on the ground that Col. Guest was a stranger, that she ought to learn more of his circumstances and standing before she could listen to his suit, &c that the times were not propitious for marriage.
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Sept. 22d. Jackson Odell. - "Captain Roberts urged Thompson at Young's house to fall back upon the relief or to retire into the house, but he persisted in drawing up in front. John Odell was then dispatched to a hill near Twitching's corner, where one of the relief companies had been posted, but it had marched a day before to Wright's Mills. Upon the first intelligence of Newton's Nortons ad- -vance, Jonathan Odell (Col.