Brundage, Silas, 1795-1866
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Silas Brundage (1795-1866) notes that he was born and raised on the farm on which Mosier’s Fight took place on December 2, 1781. He describes the location of the fight, which is now occupied by the Blind Brook Club.
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296 775 107. where I was acquainted with them. Jayne swore he would be revenged of Charles Leggett for having wounded him while a prisoner.
October 30th. Silas Brundage of King Street: "I was born and brought up on the farm on which Lieut. William Mosier drew up his men when he resisted the attack made upon him by Captain Samuel Kipp on the 2nd of December 1781. The field where this celebrated affair happened lies south of the road which leads from Purchase Street to King Street, and in the middle or the back part of the field. Sickels Company was surprised at or near [page break] 776 297 108 Merritts corner and retreated under Mosier along the fields of action fields to my father's farm. Immediately west of the field of action you descend a hill at the foot and on the south of which is a chestnut tree surrounded by a small grove of locusts. This spot is distant from Merritt's corner a mile and a half or two miles.