Totten came near enough to strike him with his sword + cut the end of his nose so as to draw blood, when Odell gave a back handed stroke + cut Totten on the shoulder or cheek when they ceased further pursuit. After they left him, Odell attempted to take up his horse when his feet slipped from under him + he went several rods on the ice, he hung to him + as the horse rose sprang on his back + let him run until he reached Teller's Point. I have been informed of this affair, by Capt Williams - Capt William Dyckman, John Odell + William Vermilyea, all of the party.
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The capture of Delancey's outpost
Sometime in the year 1781 or 82 Isaac Oakley (brother of Cornelius Oakley) was taken prisoner. The night after he was taken, Cornelius Oakley + Abraham Dyckman (both guides to the American army, when any of them was stationed in Westchester county, to and *the* militia in defending the lower part of the county) a Lieutenant command of twenty two men were at that time stationed near them. Oakley and Dyckman prevailed upon their Lieutenant to accompany them to Westchester to try and retake Isaac Oakley before he was taken to New York. They started and after proceeding four or five miles night overtook them + was likely to be very dark + rainy; *the* Lieutenant hesitated about pro= ceding farther as he had no orders + if any thing disastrous should happen he might be censured, but concluded to leave it to Oakley and Dyckman; the *counselled* together + agreed to proceed. When within two or three miles of Delancey's outpost they took an inhabitant who was in the habit of frequenting daily the outpost + trading with the enemy + who know the countersign or watchman