The White Plains and Pinesbridge having joined the Bedford and Tarrytown road a quarter of a mile or more north of the corner.] I don't know whether the man who fought with Charles Leggett was an officer or not. He was taken to Morrisania and died there (as I understood) the same night riding the horse down there on which he fought. I saw him as he rode with the blood flowing from his wounds. He held his hands clasped together, a man riding on each side of him. This skirmish
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was fought about a quarter or half a mile west of Clark's corner on the road to Bedford. This place was not called Clark's corner in the Revolutionary war. It is or was in fact three corners formed by the Bedford and Tarrytown road and a road which branches off from this to the White Plains. I think the Refugees took no prisoners except Captain Moseman and the one that was wounded. Captain Knapp was up on this occasion by ap- -pointment to cover a drove of cattle going to New York. I joined this drove with some cattle belonging to the man I lived with. The drove was concealed in the hills and woods of Chappequa. We started in the night and went forward as fast as we could expecting every moment to be joined by Knapp, but Knapp didn't appear. We went on for Tarrytown and now began to be alarmed for our- -selves and cattle for it was daylight. All t once we heard the joyful cry: "There is