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November 18th. John Williams late of Peekskill, now of the County House, aged ninety: "I lived in the Revolutionary war in East Chester about one mile from the church on the road towards mile square. Garrineau the Frenchman lived on Philipse Manor about one mile west of Hunt's bridge. He kept a store before the war, and had a son named Lewis. Colonel Emmerick was a fleshy, dark, military looking man, who took great quantities of snuff keep- -ing it loose in his pocket which was of leather. He was considered the best rifle shot then known. I remember the Queens Rangers and Legion which lay at different times near Valentine's Hill. Bearmore was near six feet high. The battle of Pelham (Glover)
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commenced on the hill and ended down at Hutchinson's river at what we called Phil. Pell's bridge. I help- -ed to bury the dead. Wards House was called "Winter Hill." When the British stormed it they came up se- -cretly along the Bronx and through a corn field. Were challenged by the sentry whom they shot, and then advanced quickly and took the house. The house was afterwards burnt after it had been entirely dismantled of doors, windows, roof &c. which we carted off, amounting to as many as fifty loads. This I saw. Gilbert Vincent was a blacksmith and his shop was within a quarter of a mile of East Chester Church. A party of horse (I believe French) asked him to shoe a horse that had lost his shoe. Vincent replied he had no coal (which I know was a fact). They, however, thought this was untrue. Vincent said, "I haven't a handful