Fannalls, Hannah Brundage
John M. McDonald interview — 1845-10-07; 1845-10-08
Hannah Brundage Fannells notes that her family’s house was located on North Street in White Plains. She remembers the Battle of White Plains, and recalls that part of the British army approached White Plains by marching north up Mamaroneck Road. Although some British soldiers did cross the fields to the east of that road, they did not go past the Brundage house on North Street. Mrs. Fannells also indicates one house that was used as a hospital and one that was used as a magazine for ammunition. She concludes by discussing the British raid on November 13, 1778, that resulted in the capture of Colonel Thomas Thomas at his farm in Harrison, and states that the British force passed her family’s house on North Street on their way to Harrison.
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- Hufeland Index Page 207 -
Octr. 7th. + 8th. Mrs. Hannah Fannells: “My maiden name was Brundage, and my father’s house where I was born, stood a little below David Dick’s old house on the North Street road. I remember well the day of the Battle of White Plains. It was a fine, sun shiny, still day. The British army advanced by the Scarsdale (that is the Mamaroneck) road A body of them crossed the fields and came out near Dan Lyons, but none passed our house. Fauconnier’s (that is, Snifferns) where we now are, was about that time made a Hospital and the stone house (James Dicks, afterwards) a magazine or ammunition house. When Colonel Thomas was taken and James Brundage killed, Simcoe passed our house, and must, I suppose,
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have retired by the Purchase Street road or King Street. They were about taking Carpenter when someone said: “Let him remain – he’ll die upon your hands,” and they left him at the door.