Odell, Jackson
John M. McDonald interview — 1845-10-20
Jackson Odell (1792-1849) was a son of John Odell, one of the Westchester Guides. Jackson Odell lists the names of the six principal Westchester Guides and indicates that they each received the pay of a captain. He notes that John Odell left Westchester County on the advice of Loyalist Colonel James DeLancey to “save his friends from outrage and their property from destruction.” Odell then joined Colonel Morris Graham’s regiment, which served on the Mohawk River. It was for this service and not his time as a guide that John Odell received a pension.
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- Hufeland Index Page 218 -
October 20th. Jackson Odell: “The six principal guides recieved the pay of Captains, and they consisted of John Odell, Cornelius Oakley Abraham Dyckman, Michael Dyckman Isaac Odell (that is, Uck Odell cousin of John) and John Pine My father in the end of 1778 pursuant to the earnest advice of Col. Delancey, and to save his friends from outrage and their property from destruction retired from West Chester and joined Colonel Graham’s regiment of New York Levies in which he served for months as a Lieutenant upon the Mohawk. It was for this tour of service as a Lieutenant in Graham’s Levies, and not for services as a guide that he received a pension of $