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Notes - Visited Titus Bridge with I. Quintard
John M. McDonald interview — 1847-11-05
From the Westchester County Historical Society catalog:
John Macdonald visits Titus Bridge in Greenwich, Connecticut, with Isaac Quintard (c.1763-1855). Quintard points out the site of the tree from which Brom Barrett was hanged. Quintard notes that Barrett’s wife came up to the site the a few days later to disinter his body and take it below British lines.
John Macdonald visits Titus Bridge in Greenwich, Connecticut, with Isaac Quintard (c.1763-1855). Quintard points out the site of the tree from which Brom Barrett was hanged. Quintard notes that Barrett’s wife came up to the site the a few days later to disinter his body and take it below British lines.
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- Hufeland Index Page 624 -
Novr. 5th Visited Titus’s Bridge in company with Mr. J. Quintard. This bridge that is, the old Titus’s bridge is situated on the old Post road or Kings highway, about a mile or a mile and a half north of the turnpike road. The situation of the tree on which Brom. Barrett was hanged was pointed out to us. It stood on the hill side immediately east of and near to the Bridge. J. M. M.
Brom Barrett’s wife who lived somewhere near Horseneck, came up a few days after he was hanged, disinterred, and took his body with her below.
Transcription from Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews.
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