There was a spring of water nearly opposite Young's on the East side of (and in) the road, where many wounded crawled for water and died. The British returned I think by the Sprain road. My father was at Youngs House at the time and I obtained these facts from him. Rochambeau's Head Quarters were at Colonel John Odell's house then owned by one Bates and now by Jackson Odell, and Washington's Head Quarters were at Joseph Appleby's, about half a mile from the Dobb's Ferry road and about the same (as much) from the Saw Mill river. Colonel Greene in the spring of
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'81 was ordered by General Washington "to take Colonel Delancey at all events." Delancey hearing of this determined to strike the first blow. He managed with skillful guides, by taking by roads and marching through fields to pass the American guards and patrols. - After the affair at Pines Bridge, he retreated by the North River road. One of his men boasted on returning at Odell's house that he could show more rebel blood upon his sword than any of the party. This was in the presence of Mrs. Garret Dyckman. This man's name was James Foskey. Colonel [X1] Cushing's party on the re- -treat from Morrisania passed up the Sprain road to McChain's where it ter- -minates, and then took to the fields where, in order to gain the Saw Mill river road, they had to pass some long sloping ground, near called Van Tafael's Hill or Van Tafael's [X2] slope, favorable to a cavalry charge