October 19th John Carpenter: Jotham Purdy was killed at night about a mile from Rye on the road to the Purchase. The man was conspicuous from the cir = cumstance of his wearing a long white feather in his cap. Ten or twelve fired at him, and he fell pierced with six or seven balls. He left a son named Andrew. My father (Thomas's Quarter master) was taken by Simcoe when Genl Thomas was taken. There…

This deterred Carpenter who then got under the bed!) James Brundage fired from the window and killed a dragoon by Simcoe's side. Capt. Ogden with a party of horse was in pursuit of Reuben Lane one of Thomas's party who had run to a thicket. Thomas alarmed at the ferocity of Simcoe's party and the fate of Brundage, sprang from a window and escaped, though one hundred shots were fired at him. He ran…

Mosier was with the company at breakfast and retreated through the fields easterly on a line par = allel to and near the road from Purchase Street to King Street. In a field beyond (that is, east of) General Thomas's in an open field) plain on a rising ground a little east of an old chestnut tree which stands in a small copse of locusts and South of the road for the Purchase Street to King Street,…

He formed his men (fewer than thirty) in a solid body, himself in the centre, having previously addressed them and told them how to act, de; saying that all depended upon their coolness and courage, and that they could not be taken if true to themselves, &c. &c. His said he was much assisted in this by Slaughter or Slater, a sergeant, who formed his men and harangued them. Kipp continued his charg…