122 43 Novr 3d John Dibble: "I was at the attack of Ward's house by Major Campbell. The same day we went down to William's Bridge on a scout to cover a foraging party of five or six teams which went down to Morrisania to take off forage. The British came from Kingsbridge to oppose us and we fought them across the river all day long till the teams returned. We were about eighty strong. About forty …

There were about two hundred Americans in the house, and they all escaped but twenty seven who were taken prisoners and six who were killed. The British had eight killed. I ran out of the house north, and found a company advancing which I joined and with them advanced to the house where the British when the British were firing into the windows. We took post behind a stone wall and attacked them, b…

Sloper commanded the one at Darian, and the one at Roxon or Noroton river was commanded by Lieut Howe. There was a whale boat Captain named Reynolds Finch, who was from this neighbor- -hood. [See preceding page] While I was at North Castle in 1777, some prisoners in number about twelve were sent up to the commanding officer at Peekskill under a guard of ten or twelve men. While on the march the pr…

On occasion of the expedition against White Stone Fort, when we landed at Pelham Neck, we did not all proceed against the Shuldham, but part of us remained with part of the boats at Pelham Neck. [margin: *Shuldham? see page 95. (099)] Novr 4th Jonathan Bates of Darian: "During the Revolutionary war a party of Refugees once landed on the east side of Five Mile River and moved up. Their landing was …