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Macdonald, John. Interview with Lyon, Samuel, c.1783-1853; (1851-10-18). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 1069. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026.

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[margin: 157.] Elizabeth German or Jarmin was still alive, with all her faculties well preserved except her hearing. That she still resides at Glen Cove, L.I. near the Steamboat wharf along with her son John Jarmin who, I think, is a boatman, &c. She remembered my visit last year. I left my card for Mr. Davis. October 18th Samuel Lyon of Weaver Street: "When Major Huggeford cut off the American r…
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About the middle of the war, General Thomas's flour mills on the Byram, near his house, were taken and plundered by a party of DeLancey's Refugees who took off a great quantity of flour. Among the Refugees who came up on this occasion was one Silvanus Simmons who belonged to DeLancey's Corps, but who a short time previously was found by General Thomas at West Point, where he had been [margin: 158]…
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