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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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…
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
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