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Wetmore, Elizabeth Bush
Wetmore, Elizabeth Bush
John M. McDonald interview — 1848
From the Westchester County Historical Society catalog:
Elizabeth Bush Wetmore (c.1761-1853) describes an incident when a group of Refugee cavalry that had captured cattle in Connecticut and were driving them south were pursued by a force of American soldiers at Sawpitts (present-day Port Chester). The Refugees were able to continue driving the cattle toward Rye. Mrs. Wetmore also describes Loyalist Major Mansfield Bearmore as a “genteel man.”
Elizabeth Bush Wetmore (c.1761-1853) describes an incident when a group of Refugee cavalry that had captured cattle in Connecticut and were driving them south were pursued by a force of American soldiers at Sawpitts (present-day Port Chester). The Refugees were able to continue driving the cattle toward Rye. Mrs. Wetmore also describes Loyalist Major Mansfield Bearmore as a “genteel man.”
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- Hufeland Index Page 888 -
Elizabeth Bush Wetmore: “I am in my 88th year. In the latter part of the war, in the Fall, I think, a party of Refugees who had collected a drove in Connecticut were overtaken at Sawpitts by the militia and the troops that pursued. One of the prisoners was shot in the knee. There was some fighting as they passed through Sawpitts, but the drove went on the Rye. They crossed Sawpitt bridge below Byram. Bearmore was a slender (?) genteel man.
Transcription from Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews.
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