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<left margin> Col. Saml. Drake not Joseph - Hyatt - Merritt - riflemen Tories - 600 men fr. Delancey to disarm the Tories - Dr. Seiz - Hewson - Thomas Currie, Jr. - Peekskill. <left margin>
Oct. 20th Thomas Strang: "When the British under Abercrom- -bie came to Crompond and burnt Strang's house, it was afternoon. When the horse came June 24th, it was early in the morning. On the 24th of June, Tarleton came up by a circuitous route going up the Croton above Pines Bridge one mile and a half or more above, crossed at Vail's ford, advanced upon Crompond from the east by a road which lends like a semi-circle, coming in to the Crom- -pond road, a little south of where Delavan
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<left margin> father of John Shaw of Peekskill <left margin> lived. They then came to Delavan's house, where they found John Shaw whom they killed, mistaking him for Capt. Delavan. This happened in the morning of June 24th, on the road from Crompond to Pine's Bridge, about two miles three quarters from Crompond. The British then burnt the Meeting House and Parsonage house and retired upon Pines Bridge. On the 3rd of June 1779, Major [Abercrombie] burnt Major Strang's house then occupied as a Court House, and also burnt a storehouse, then used as a depot for firearms and stores &c. for the military. Shaw was killed at Delavan's stable. He defended himself gallantly, but was set upon by five or six horseman and cut to pieces. The cowboys, tories, and horse thieves penetrated WestChester, Orange Dutchess Counties all the way to Albany. On the 24th of June 1779, some