Macdonald, John. Interview with Tuttle, Elizabeth Archer; (1846). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 540. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026.
INTERVIEWEE: Elizabeth Archer Tuttle
DATE: 1846
LOCATION: New York
October 9th Garret Garretson, of Yonkers:
Donop's horse was ambuscaded by a party of Americans who got above and below them - the infantry below [some distance from] the cavalry. The ~~sight~~ [marg: noise] of the fight resembled a smith hammering a bar of iron - no firing, fought only with their swords. The same night I saw [marg…
Refugee settlements on Gouverneur's and Lewis Morris's lands about as much on one as the other.
Col. DeLancey had gone out to meet a flag at my Lord Underhill's and it rained, so he escaped Cushing's attack, but several were taken.
Hatfield commanded at Morris's house when it was burnt, and it was then DeLancey's head=quarters - and afterwards headquarters were at our house - his headquarters af…