INTERVIEWEE: Benjamin Kipp DATE: 1847-11-20 LOCATION: of the Sing Sing road, but further on. The Buckout family lived on the Courtland farm in a long, low house on the right. The British party that burnt Crompond advanced circuitously, crossing the Croton at Vail's or some other ford, and coming from an unexpected quarter into the Crompond road at Halleck's then called Delavan's Mills. I saw T[o…

The Refugee horse on this occasion behaved with great artifice. They recaptured part of the cattle they had lost and retired on the Tarrytown road so as to entice the Americans below that place (Tarrytown) where a fresh party of DeLanceys were waiting for them in ambuscade. The pursuers fell into this trap, and lost some prisoners. The Skinners from above were very cruel, whipping and torturing th…