'They ran all round Fort Nonsense, Crying, No bread, no rum! They swear they won't protect us, And, therefore, we'll go home. And if they catch us stealing - They'll get clear if they can, By saying their fathers are Deacons, Or very creditable men.'
These verses were written on the occasion of a meeting among the soldiers for want of provisions. About the time the cowboys first commenced
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their operations, they stole a horse of my father's which they sold at the time they left Morrisania. She was a very fleet mare. Five or six years afterwards he found her at Horse neck when he claimed he got her again. Capt. Ebenezer Jones, who took off Judge Jones, married a sister of mine. General Wash- -ington wanted to take Judge Jones to exchange for some American General then a prisoner (Genl Silliman?) They started from Stamford on a bright moonlight night in three whaleboats and about fifteen or twenty men. After reaching Long Island, they travelled only by night carrying the boats. They were three nights going across and reached Judge Jones about 9 o'clock in the evening. He was just going to bed, being up stairs, and was dressed in silk breeches. They asked for Judge Jones. He enquired who they were, and were answered Captain Jones and some friends. When he came down they told him he was a prisoner, and took him to one of the boats which was launched. When he first