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<left margin> Genl. Wm. Greene – a soubriquet – Col. Benjn. Green of Somers, a real Colonel. <left margin>

October 23d Samuel Chadeayne “Early in the Revolutionary war, that is, about 1778 or 1779, one Thomas Gibson lived in Yorktown, and joined the British He afterwards came up, a Refugee, skulking, &c. John Drake, a militia Lieut. came to Gibson’s house and commenced pulling it down, whipping Gibson’s son, a boy, to make him tell where his father then was. Gibson was on a hill in the woods, near enough to hear, and creeping cautiously along fired and killed a sentry posted at the house. He retired unmolested, Drake being afraid to pursue, &c. Sometime, within a year afterwards, Thomas Gibson and some others at the house of Bartow Underhill near Gibson’s house, about a mile and a half west of the Chadeayne farm, in company with some Refugees, when a small company of horse from Bedford (militia) approached Underhill’s house. They were *spied* by

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the Refugees, and all but Gibson escaped, by the west door. He ran out of a door to the north which led to a garden surrounded by a picket fence which cost him so much time that before he could scale it, he was taken prisoner and tied. Some half an hour or more afterwards while he was leaning against the back gable end of the house an Irishman named William Dalton came up and accosted Gibson: “Gibson, you have threated my life.” Gibson replied, “No, I have not.” Whereupon Dalton fired and killed him with his musket. May 14, 1781, Delancey’s main party crossed the fields and bye-roads to Blenis’s ford where the foot mounted behind the horse and passed the river.

Elisha Pulney of Somers – Mr. Wood, of North Castle. Genl. Wm. Greene, of Pines Bridge, was a wealthy farmer who did not belong to the

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militia, but had the soubriquet of General which pleased him. Col. Benjn. Greene of Somers commanded a militia regiment after the Revolutionary war. Eden Hunt, brother of Major Hunt, of Baker Hook, with a party of guides on horseback, at a spot between the Chadeayne farm and Sing Sing was ambuscaded and fired upon by a party of Refugees. He was shot through the body, but recovered.” – See Thayer. “During the Revolutionary war and previous to the spring of 1781, when my father left Yorktown for New Rochelle, there was (for a while) a company of foot stationed at O’Blenis’s, to guard the ford with a sergeant’s guard of ten or twelve men at our house (Chadeaynes) – that is, a picket. The Refugees who were lurking about the neighbouring woods and houses determined to carry off this guard. The company which formed the main guard and the advanced were

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rangers under the command of Benjamin Greene (Stevenson?). One night, one or two Refugees crawled, unperceived, near the sentinel and fired at him. The rest of the picket were at this time in high glee amusing themselves at the expense of one of their number who was what they called a “Johnny Raw.” They ran on the alarm, ran first to their arms and fired upon the enemy (the main body of whom had come up) and then fell back upon the mainguard. One man, left behind in retreating, mistook the Refugees (who ran also) for his comrades, and halloed for them to stop. Several when they heard him, stopped, turned about, and fired. He then discovered his mistake, and altered his course. You will during the winter, hear from me, and Jess. Ryder, probably. 1779.? I saw the British army (regulars) pass down the hardscrabble road.”