240. 263 128. November 5th. Zipporah Davis (wife of Abraham): "General Lee's Head-quarters were at my mother's (Annatije Millers) a day or two before the battle of White Plains, and that morning or the day before he advised us to move back, observing: 'If you stay here you'll have a very troublesome time.' We started in the morning in an ox cart with beds, &c horses &c, and some of our furniture f…

General Washington had his Headquarters at our house for one day, and slept there one night when my mother gave him her own bed, the only time she ever resigned it. [page break] 244 265 130. All I recollect of the Duke de Lauzerne consists in these particulars, viz: that he was a very polite, had a handsome person, wore moustaches, was liberal with money, and resided at a house where John Norton n…