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Sept. 30th. Captain John Romer: "Peter and Cornelius Van Tassel were cousins. The out-post was kept at Cornelius's house and the guard at The night on which the houses were surprised and burnt was one of the coldest of the season. Cornelius Van Tassel on the first alarm sprang from the window and tried to escape being almost naked. He was taken but never recovered from the expo- -sure of that night, and died about years after of the cold he then caught. Captain Joshua Barnes
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acted as Guide when Emmerick and his wife voice was heard above the tumult: "The houses ae both owned by d--d Rebels - burn them!" I have heard that Emmerick had as many as four hundred men with him. Cornelius Van Tassel was confined eleven months and eleven days. Peter who was the Committee Man held a Lieutenants commission in the militia (?) and was entitled to and received his parole I don't know how long he was absent. The Van Tassel taken in the Sum- -mer of 1779 about the time of Tarle- -ton's execution excursion to Pound- -ridge was probably John Van Tassel of Tarrytown who was taken and soon after paroled and was suspect- -ed of being in the British interest subsequently. I don't know who commanded the party that burnt Gen DeLancey's house at Bloomingdale on the 26th of November 1777, but
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