The fire of the house caused a great alarm among the British shipping and they were forced to return by way of New Jersey after burning the boats A British frigate once came up and was lying off Tarrytown. She sent a boat which rowed towards Beekman's Point. Colonel Armand who was scouting about asked me to guide him. He had been lying on the hill and saw the boat. He meant to fire upon them from a wall piece he had with him loaded with slugs and which he said would reach them (halfway across the river). Armand
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had been posted on Davis's Hill or Sugar Loaf Hill (Kakeout?) [X] His intention was to cut them off by going down the Beekman's Point with his wall piece while they were in the cove by the mill, at which place they used
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a swamp where they could not follow him. On the 26th of May 1779, a party of Refu- -gees suddenly came upon Tarrytown. The inhabitants dove their cattle in great alarm into the woods north of Pocentico? Brook(?) on
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the road leading from Rossell's corner to Tarrytown.