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October 27th Mr. Randall of 116th St. East river - opposite Randall's and Ward's Island: "I remember Mrs. Day who kept a tavern on the old Post road under Haerlem Heights. She had a daughter who
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married one Abraham (?) King, a shipping merchant of New York. A few years since one of King's sons built a house upon his grandmother Day's place which, I believe, he has since sold. I think there are several grandsons of Mrs. Day named King, now living in New York. On the 22d of July 1781, I saw a Refugee who was taking horses across Haerlem river, chased by the Americans and French, but he escaped with the horses. At this time there was a British battery where Judge Ingraham's house now is, and a fort and cannon upon Snake Hill. The old road at Morrisania, I think, passed along the Mill damn. During the hard winter a British vessel was frozen up opposite my brother's near the old Ferry. I don't know where Van de Water's Heights were, or where Col. Knowlton and Major Henly were buried, or where the Refugee settlement stood that was burnt in 1781.
At this time there was a British battery where Judge Ingraham's house now is, and a fort and cannon upon Snake Hill. The old road at Morrisania, I think, passed along the Mill damn. During the hard winter a British vessel was frozen up opposite my brother's near the old Ferry. I don't know where Van de Water's Heights were, or where Col. Knowlton and Major Henly were buried, or where the Refugee settlement stood that was burnt in 1781.