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October 20th. Jesse Ryder of Ossining: "My Grand- -father, Jacob Ryder, during the Revolu- -tionary war lived in the next house below on the road to and not far from Sing Sing. A French officer (Colonel Armand I suppose) staid with him the whole or part of one winter. His men were not all French. He was about putting one of them to death for desertion or some crime when my grandmother begged his life of the commander and saved him. Eden Hunt, an American guide, was shot by a party of Refugees, a little north of my house on the road to Pines Bridge. The account I gave you of the West Chester Tea Party is correct in its facts throughout without any embellishment. It was John Arthur, afterwards proprietor of the Tabor Farm (as it was called) in Dutchess County, who owned the tea. If I learn anything authentic that
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can aid your enterprise, I will not fail to communicate it to you.
Eden Hunt, an American guide, was shot by a party of Refugees, a little north of my house on the road to Pines Bridge. The account I gave you of the West Chester Tea Party is correct in its facts throughout without any embellishment. It was John Arthur, afterwards proprietor of the Tabor Farm (as it was called) in Dutchess County, who owned the tea. If I learn anything authentic that - Hufeland Index Page 737 - can aid your enterprise, I will not fail to communicate it to you.