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
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of coal in the world." Words ensued and one of the Frenchmen shot him dead through the breast. When Elijah Vincent heard this, he swore he would have revenge, and waylaid and shot a French officer (I think a General officer) at Scarsdale, despoiling him of all his arms which he afterwards showed me, and which I saw, consisting of a sword, dagger, pistols, epaulettes, scarf, belt, &c. - all extremely elegant. I was on the field of battle at Chatterton's Hill the day after the action. Most of the killed and wounded was where the Hessians crossed the Bronx, some also over the hill. I was up at Greenburg then on a visit." The Stockbridge Indians were all killed with Nimham.