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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.

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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…
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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…
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- 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…
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