parole, and was afraid of difficulty if taken. I crossed Harlem river in a boat and witnessed Montross's affair from York Island. The horse refused to swim across to the end, and was finally brought across in a boat. Novr 3d David Higgins of Bedford, aged 80: "When Thad. Seely was wounded, the Refugees were pursued by fifteen or twenty of Sheldon's and by the militia, as far as Buttermilk hill, a…

The French were very angry and wanted to shoot Obadiah Akerley who concealed the Refugees at his house. The body was found a few days day or two afterwards. It may be the same case as the French Surgeon-- Three were said to have been concerned in this. Totten was one of them. (The story of the French Surgeon probably. (J. M. M.) Black rate was [enforced] imposed here. Wardell, killed at Chappequa…