He tried to prevail upon several during his march from Sing Sing to West Chester to untie the ropes, saying he could escape almost anywhere by jumping from his horse and taking to the woods. - At the ambuscade of Nimham, Colonel Emmerick was deliberately fired at by an Indian and narrowly escaped y ducking his head - the ball hitting his hat. The Indians passed my fathers down the Saw Mill River Road, the day before they were surprised and cut to pieces.
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When Emmerick took to the Van Tassells he marched up the Saw Mill River Road. Captain Rowe was killed near the Methodist Church at Yonkers, was a great favorite among the country people where he was known. The place where Colonel Hatfield surprised a party at Americans who had been below was probably at William Underhill's about a mile south of Lent's Hill. Some Ame- -rican troops certainly were once surprised there early in the morning. Vermille's house, where Isaac (Uck) Odell and two others, guides, were surprised and taken in June '81, on their return from an excursion to Morrisania, having stopped to sup - is on the Sprain Road one mile and an half South east of Joseph Odell's. Barton, Lawrence Smith and Vincent had been about our place several days intending an excursion
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somewhere below where they had frequently been, when they were surprised by the Kipp's. They were foolish rash young men who had rendered themselves extremely ob- -noxious to DeLancey's Refugees. - When Kipps party came up these youth's presented their pieces but didn't fire - the Refugees telling them: "if you pull a trigger we'll hack you to pieces." They then attempted to escape across Saw Mill river.