202 566 [margin: Genl Wm. Greene - a soubriquet Col Benjn Greene, of Somers, a real Colonel.] October 23d Samuel Chadeayne "Early in the Revolutionary war, that is, about 1778 or 1779, one Thomas Gibson lived in Yorktown, and joined the British. He afterwards came up, a Refugee, skulking, &c. John Drake, a militia Lieut. came to Gibson's house and commenced pulling it down, whipping Gibson's son, …

He ran out of a door to the north which led to a garden surrounded by a picket fence which cost him so much time that before he could scale it, he was taken prisoner and tied. Some half an hour or more afterwards while he was leaning against the back of the house an Irishman named William Dalton came up and accosted Gibson. "Gibson, you have threatened my life." Gibson replied, "No, I have not." W…

"During the Revolutionary war and previous to the spring of 1781, when my father left Yorktown for New Rochelle, there was (for a while) a company of foot stationed at O'Blenis's, to guard the ford with a sergeant's squad guard of ten or twelve men at work our house - (Chadeayne) - that is, a picket. The Refugees who were lurking about the neighbouring woods and houses determined to carry off this…

The rest of the picket were at this time in high glee amusing themselves at the expense of one of their number who was what they called a "Johnny Raw." They ran on the alarm, ran first to their arms and fired upon the enemy (the main body of whom had come up) and then fell back upon the main guard. One man, left behind in retreating mistook the Refugees (who ran also) for his comrades, and holloed…