507 93 28. [margin: PARIS] Septbr 18th. Mrs. Sally Randall: "I am the daughter of Andrew Lyon and Enrico Sniffen, sister of Mary Sniffen Bloomer's killed near Bloomer's at Rye Neck. Her father, and my grandfather, Jonathan Sniffen, was a royalist, and was beloved at or near New York, and wrote to his daugh -ter to bring down a fat creature. She accordingly started of a beautiful moonlight night accompanied by two men. Bartelow and my father. Mary was anxious to go, and paraded the floor in excitement. Bartelow and father wished to wait no longer. They started about 12 of a Saturday night. Her mother foreboded evil from her extreme anxiety. At Rye Neck, near the brook by Bloomer's, a party of about seven rose from behind a stone wall and fired. Mary fell from her horse and her attendant fled. They heard her say "Oh, don't!" They plundered her of her rings and pockets; and Maynard who commanded [page break] 94 508 29. [margin: PARIS] [margin: Tier] the party carried her pockets on the point of his bayonet, and boasted he had killed a tory. Mary was engaged at the time to marry Jacob Tier, but her family had not consented to the marriage. The creature was a bull, and notified their approach by bellowing. Maynard was from the Purchase. I never heard that money was concealed in her hair and saved. It was, I believe, taken from her body."

Septbr. 18th Willett Moseman, of East Chester: [above: Anceman] My father, was during the Revolutionary war a militia captain, and lived somewhere in Bedford New Purchase. He was taken prisoner twice, carried to New York, and confined in the old Sugar House where he suffered much. My brother Stephen who lives about two miles from New Castle corner is older than I am; and can give you particulars."