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Mrs. Charity Tompkins: "Betty Cropper lived all the war at her house where Isaac Hunt lived afterwards. The old house stood where the present one does, on the side of the hill. She told me that at the battle of White Plains there were a good many killed about their house. Old Mr. Romer and his wife (the parents of Captain John) were very respectable. They came from the same parish or village in Switzerland and became attached to each other in early infancy - she, the daughter of a farmer, and he the son of a tailor and a tailor himself. When grown up they wanted to marry, but her parents refused to consent. They then determined to seek
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their fortunes in America, and left their native place together. When they arrived at New York, she had money to pay her passage, while his means were exhausted. He was about to sell himself for a time as the custom then was, when she said: "You can earn money to purchase my freedom sooner than I can yours. Let me be sold then and you work at your trade until you can earn enough to buy my time, when we will marry. He consented to this arrangement and paid for his passage with her money while she was sold. When he had earned sufficient her freedom was bought, and they were married.
He was about to sell himself for a time as the custom then was, when she said: "You can earn money to purchase my freedom sooner than I can yours. Let me be sold then and you work at your trade until you can earn enough to buy my time, when we will marry. He consented to this arrangement and paid for his passage with her money while she was sold. When he had earned sufficient her freedom was bought, and they were married.