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
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Captain Kipp Knapp! They are come!" We then were safe and got nearly in to Mor- -risania that night. Cattle dealers were in the habit of purchasing above in Dutchess County &c, and driving down to near the lines by obscure roads and paths among their friends, hiding in the wood and hills, &c. - When they arrived at or near the Croton, they then employed guides living about there to pilot their droves down below till they were out of all danger, when they themselves took the cattle and drove in to New York. Captn. Knapp on this occasion came up the North River road to Tarrytown and from that place went on the Clark's corner. When Captain Knapp joined us we were about a mile north of Buttermilk Hill. Knapp retreated by the same road on which he advanced. Knapp (I understood) and the other Refugee officers were in the habit of exacting from the drovers one half or one fourth or some part of the profits they made. On the above occasion the droves were almost in despair at the