Macdonald, John. Interview with Brush, Benjamin, 1764-1847; (1846-11-26). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 1741. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026.
Waterbury's Guard of nine months or [Year's] men was several times times [taken] at Titus's Bridge by the Refugees.
Colonel Humphreys was a noble looking man and a good officer.
When Colonel Wells was taken at Horton Reynolds's, but very few, if any, of his men were killed. Rivington's statement of fifteen killed must be a mistake.
[marg: 1846. November 24th.]
Benjamin Brush: "Theall and his ho…
Heard and Peyton turned
suddenly -- one, to the right, and the
other to the left; and Peyton, with a
back hand blow killed one dead. --
(Peyton was a very tall man -- Heard
not much above the middle size, but
strongly, actively, and elegantly form
=ed.] Heard killed the other who
hung sometime by the stirrups.
-- Gaines was taken about a mile north
of Stanwich Church, as Dr. Betts was
Belcher live…
- Windows of houses, where White
had been quartered at Stanwich, which
were broken in &c, viz. by Tarleton's
dragoons, were those of the Widows Ingersoll and Austin, &c.
- Part of Hatfield's party came through
the fields, I suppose, in order to collect
the cattle and to flank the main body.
- White had not left our house more
than a day before [Tarleton] came, and
he must have joined his regimen…