152 1018 [margin: PARIS] 109 Octr. 16th Jacob T. Weed, of Horseneck Village, Inn Keeper, &c “Horseneck Meeting-house stands very nearly in the same spot as the old building in the Revolutionary war. Matthew Mead’s house is about a mile and a little more from Horseneck Meeting House. In May, 1780, the sentinel at the Stone house was distant from the guard -house about 200 – probably 300 yards. The road that comes in from the North, at the stone house branches off a mile or two up, leading to Pecks farm and North Street. A short lane leads from this north road westerly to Thomas Hobby’s, afterwards Jas. Mead’s farm house in the fields which is little more than a quarter of a mile from the sentinel’s post, near the stone-house. The clergyman taken off by the British on the 22d of May, 1780, was, I believe, the Revd. Mr. Murdock, and not 109 [page break] 1019 155 [margin: PARIS] 110 Knapp as Rivington says. This was, probably, the time that Colonel Mead hid a field piece in a field of wheat for safety. The two swells or eminences in the Turnpike or main street at Horseneck, one of which is where the church stands, and the other westerly towards Byram river, are about one hundred rods or a quarter of a mile apart. Chimney corner is in Indian Harbor and is about a mile and a half from Horseneck Meeting House in a southerly direction. Mr. Theodore Mead is intelligent and obliging, and I think will let you see his grand father’s papers, but not one of that Mead family, or ever has been military, or fond of war. Andrew and Richard Mead were of a different family. Mrs. Elizabeth Mead Bloomer of No. 100 Norfolk Street, New York, will know where Mrs. Elizabeth Lyon, widow of Lyon is to be found. I think she 110 [page break] 156 1020 [margin: PARIS] 111 resides at 65 Stanton St, but am not certain. She is a daughter of Jabez Sherwood of the Log-Bridge over the Byram, is about 80 years old, and must know the Revolutionary transactions of her native neighborhood.

Oct. 17th Salman Orser, of Ossining, aged 82: “There were four corners at Twitching during the Revolutionary war formed by the White Plains and Pines Bridge Road and the Bedford and Tarrytown road near the Poor House was a road used before the Revolutionary war. I was born in the house where I now live. The Refugees under the Kipps, Saml. and James, used to come up and sweep off our cattle. Once they took off as many as 200 head of horses and cattle, and about twenty head from this place owned by my father 111