Mead, Calvin
John M. McDonald interview — 1845-11-14
Calvin Mead (1760-1847) recalls an incident in 1779 when British Colonel Banastre Tarleton unsuccessfully attempted to surprise Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Walton White of the 4th Continental Light Dragoons near Round Hill in Greenwich, Connecticut. When Tarleton withdrew his men, White sent a force under Lieutenant Erasmus Gill to pursue and draw Tarleton into an ambush, but the American force took the wrong road. Mead concludes by noting that Captain Samuel Kipp of DeLancey’s Refugees unsuccessfully tried to talk American Lieutenant William Mosier into surrendering his force at Mosier’s Fight in present-day Rye Brook on December 2, 1781.
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Transcription
- Hufeland Index Page 286 -
1845
November 14th. Calvin Mead, of Quaker Ridge: “Tarleton in 1779 endeavored to surprise Colonel White near Roundhill but failed, White having shifted his Head quarters the night before. When Tarleton retired White sent Lieut. Gill with a party of fifteen or twenty to insult the British colonel and provoke a pursuit to a place where the American Colonel had a strong party of infantry in ambush. The British did pursue, but Gills party took the wrong road being warmly pressed. This was between Quaker Hill Ridge and White Plains. When Gill was ambuscaded by Beckwith he encouraged his men to cut through telling them their horses were better and stronger. Kipp at first tried to talk Mosier and his men into a surrender, promising good treatment. &c.
- Hufeland Index Page 287 -
1845
Calvin Mead or his son Marcus Mead of Round Hill or Quakers Ridge – Purchase Post office.