Purdy proved a traitor and informed the principal whigs of M[Maroneck?] - vizt: Colonel Gilbert Budd, Gilbert Horton, and Captain Samuel Townsend, of Rye Neck. Captain Townsend commanded the party composed of the American Store Guard and the militia company of the vicinity. They marched to the Great Lots before Townsend let them know where or for what they were going. - Surrounding the fastnesses where Lounsbury was concealed, they called upon him and his party to surrender - they being unarmed. His men attempted to escape, but were fired upon and then
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surrendered. Lounsbury refused to surrender though called upon repeatedly and defended himself with a club. Orders then came from the commander to bayonet him, and he was killed with seven bayonets, refusing to the last to yield. They found his enlisting orders in his pocket, and a roll of his men whom they secured. Delancey's Neck &c. was part of the manor of Scarsdale. Governor Delancey had three children. - John [Peter,] Stephen and Susan. Stephen and Susan died childless, and John [Peter] took all. Colonel Rogers came to [Maroneck] on October 21st about sunrise with about 400 men. Part of his regiment took possession of the high ground and part went to the village of [Maroneck] destroying the American stores deposited there for the army at Fort Washington.
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Great quantities of rum, sugar, pork, and molasses were destroyed near the dock - some in houses further up the river. The army bivoucked round rail fires about 1 or 200 yards north west of Delancey's house. Captain Eagles with his company was posted as a picket guard further south near where the private burying ground now is. The sentry on Long Island (Indian) was surprised (and taken without noise), and the picket guard was taken, but part of them probably fired and gave the alarm.