661 87 181 70. Captain Micah Townsend was, I believe, from somewhere in the upper part of the County. Micajah Townsend was a different person altogether. He was a Lawyer, and before and at the commence ment of the war practiced at White Plains. He was a royalist, and after the Revolutionary war settled in Canada.

1848. 1848. May 6th. Donald McLean: “John Kane of Fredericksburg was a merchant and farmer extensively engaged in business, and a man of very considerable consequence. He and Malcolm Morrison and Major Alexander Grant (killed at Fort Montgomery) and Charles Cullen all of Fredericksburg married daughters of Priest Kent of South East—two Irish and two Scotch men. Kane’s two sons, John &

[page break] 88 662 182 71. Charles went off with him. His daughter Patty married Gilbert Livingston of the lower manor. Kane was a very polite man, educated, as was said, for a catholic priest. He horsewhipped his children sometimes, but this was discipline he was brought up to. Colonel Cook’s house at Danbury was (almost the only active Whig whose dwelling) preserved. He told his family to give the the British the best entertainment they could, provisions &c. Dinners was furnished when they came, and they destroyed nothing. Col. Barclay told me that Major AlexGrant, who was killed at Fort Montgomery was sent for by the Commander (Col. C. or Genl. Clinton) who wanted to give some commands to him. He went, received orders, but unfortunately returned by a different route (a shorter and more expeditious one probably), and was killed. He was a Scotchman, and lived on the Same and M. Howe’s Farm, Jr. Alexander Menzies, son of Major Thomas Menzies, an

[page break] 663 91 183 officer with his father in Arnold’s legion, but John was then an infant. Major Alexander Menzies lived at Fredericksburg on the Cornell Farm. He was a Scotchman and royalist and died on Long Island. Capt. Duncan Campbell had a very fine farm of 300 acres off the N.E. end of Robinson’s Patent. He went below. The farm was near Quaker Hill & afterwards belonged to the Aiken family. James Stuart after the war kept a grocery at Whitehall. Governor Clinton and Genl. James Clinton were intimate with him. Genl. Jas. Clinton used to eat and drink with him (ad ebrietatem). James Mac Intosh persuaded him to hear old Dr. Rogers preach who attacked the Roman Catholics. He exclaimed in Gaelic to Mac Intosh: “The Devil take him! – Do you hear him?” When he received his commission he went before Congress carrying his broadsword. “This sword, gentlemen,” said he, “was used by my father and grand-

[page break] 92 664 184. 73 -father against the House of Hanover, and I mean to oppose them with it as long as I have power to wield it.” I know Stuart about from 1795 to 1800. I believe he died in New York about 1800 or soon after. [Probably so, J. M. M.] Stuart left a wife and children in Scotland. There were a great many tories in Quaker Hill, Fredericksburg, Dover, Beekman, and New Fairfield in Connecticut. Newtown, in Connecticut, contained only seven whigs, and one of them got so drunk one 4th of July at dinner that he died, and so there remained only six. Adjutant James Grant had been a major in the British service and lived on the place where Osborn afterward lived adjacent to old James Grant’s who was only a lieutenant. Major James married Lieutenant James’s sister. He was a royalist and went below. Nich. McLean who lived at Fredericksburg was a Lieutenant in the old French

[page break] 665 95 185 74. war. He boarded there, being a batchelor and went below, and received a Captain’s commission. Bernard Kane of Fredericksburg, (Brother of John) was a schoolmaster there – went below, and got a Captain’s commission in one of the new raised corps. Allen Cameron, a Scotchman and blacksmith at Fredericksburg went below & got to be a Captain. I don’t know the first names of Hoag, and Major McKay. Major Menzies and James Grant were both prisoners on their parole which I believe was not to go further from home than six miles. Archibald Campbell, killed at Ward’s house, was, I believe, only a Captain, but was soon to be promoted to a majority in one of the new raised corps. The name of Crawford, of Fredericksburg or South East, who belonged to Tarleton’s Legion, was William. He was a brave man.

[page break] 96 666 186. 75. -ever heard of Lieutenant Buson, was a famous robber in the Revolutionary war named Huestis or Husted. There were two brothers of the Delawans. They were not well spoken of generally. Stephen Delancey parted from his wife. I know nothing of the following persons mentioned in page 117, vizt: Daniel Leder, George Turnbull, Capt. Mc. Alpine, Col. Mungo Campbell, Col. Fanning, Major McKay, Thos. Moody, the Dunlaps, Yeamans, Capt. Brandon or Capt. Kipp. William Cunningham, the Provost Marshall was afterwards (as I have heard) hanged for forgery.