The widow Budd's house stood below the Croton, and at Pinesbridge on the left side of the road leading to White Plains, and on the right of the road leading to the North Castle Church - She was born Griffen. The only Dutch families, I remember that lived at Pinesbridge during the Revolutionary war were the Juhels who lived near a mile from the bridge on the left, near where the White Plains road now leaves the turnpike, and the Buckout's who lived on the right side
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of the Sing Sing road, but further on. The Buckout family lived on the Courtland farm in a long, low house on the right. The British party that burnt Crom- -pond advanced circuitiously, crossing the Croton at Vail's or some other ford, and coming from an unexpected quarter into the Crompond road at Halleck's then called Delavan's Mills. I saw T[otten] (or who ever commanded) and his troops (which were all horse) as they retired across the Croton by Pinesbridge. I think there were no negroes at Davenport house, but my grandfathers, when Greene was surprised."
The Buckout family lived on the Courtland farm in a long, low house on the right. The British party that burnt Crom- -pond advanced circuitiously, crossing the Croton at Vail's or some other ford, and coming from an unexpected quarter into the Crompond road at Halleck's then called Delavan's Mills. I saw T[otten] (or who ever commanded) and his troops (which were all horse) as they retired across the Croton by Pinesbridge. I think there were no negroes at Davenport house, but my grandfathers, when Greene was surprised."