Macdonald, John. Interview with Carpenter, Elizabeth Field, 1771-1854; (1848). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 895. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).

- Hufeland Index Page 878 - Elizabeth, [X] wife of John Carpenter: "My name was Elizabeth Field, and my father lived in the first house above Tommy Clapp's at the head of King Street being the first house above, that is, north of Clapps. Bearmore stopped at our house the day Bedford was burnt. My father had taken his papers out of the house and put them in a secure place, and …

Totten saw him half a mile off, ran to the adjacent fields, bridled and saddled his horse and put his horse to his utmost speed, but the horse fell and one of the Refugees alone was near and in a moment came up. This was by Benjamin Clapp's where Sheldon at the time lay. Clapp's and heldon's men secured the horse and retreated towards Byram river and Totten escaped in the …

Benjamin Clapp's house was, probably, burnt in February 1781 by Major Hungerford, though I had supposed it was fired on the same day Bedford was burnt. The house of Henry Dusenbury where Mosier was when surprised &c, is the house you saw in the fields south of Merritt's corner, and east of the road now untenanted and surrounded by locust trees. There was at the time a lane …