Nov. 20th Benjamin Acker, (at Stymats Fishers): "I saw service during the Revolutionary war, and in the latter part of it was employed as a ferryman at King's Ferry, where we made use of Scows, flat boats and Pattianges. I ferried Smith and André across the river, September 22d 1780, and was a witness on Smith's trial. In 1781, when the French army lay at White Plains, I was employed as a waterman…

We killed two, wounded two, made prisoners of the other five, and let the woman go. I belonged to the guard that was watching the road near Roswell's corner about two miles below Clark's corner, when the British went up to burn Crompond in 1779. We hid. It was a dark night. About two hundred horse passed, and then at some distance came the infantry. I don't know whether they advanced at this time…