His escape he now owed to the skill and courage of his guide, Isaac Webbers who conducted him over the Pocentico by crossing the fields a little east of the Post road, which then ran a little east of the present road. Soon after he came out of Twitch- -ing's Road into the White Plains road Emmerick was at his heels and followed so close that to a spectator they almost appeared to form one squadron. When
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Hopkins crossed the fields, Emmerick pushed up the Post road intending to head him and cut off his retreat, but when he approached the Yager infantry they mistook him for an enemy and fired upon his troop. The confusion caused by this mistake much facilitated Hopkins' escape who regained the Post road above the bridge with three prisoners and four horses and thinking themselves then safe, approached the river and discharged their carbines at the Yager infantry on the op- -posite bank. But Emmerick, hitherto baffled determined on a further pursuit. The Yager horse having joined him his cavalry became more numerous than Hopkins' party, whom he pursued for three miles. In the course of this pursuit some of Hopkins' men at different times were on the point of falling into the enemy's hands their horses tiring; when Hopkins or Pike charged and rescued them [Some horses tiring the men rode among bushes
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&c. and escaped.] My father's house was about a quarter of a mile from the White Plains and Tarrytown road and a half mile from the Post road. The brook where André was taken was called Clark's Kill. At the capture of Young's house a party of the British diverged easterly from the Sprain road and made their ad- -vance by a hollow which crosses the West (White) Plains road about one hundred yards east of the Sprain (?) Allaires road, and so took Colonel Thompson in flank.