Macdonald, John. Interview with McLean, Donald; (1848-05-06). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1544. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).

- Hufeland Index Page 661 - 1848. 1848. May 6th Donald McLean: "John Kane of Fredricksburg was a merchant and farmer extensively engaged in business, and a man of very considerable consequence. He and Malcolm Morrison and Major Alexander Grant (killed at Fort Montgomery) and Charles Cullen all of Fredericksburg married daughters of Priest Kent of South East - two Irish and two …

He was a Scotchman, and lived on the Paine and N. Howe's ^Howland Farm, &c. Alexander Menzies, son of Major Thomas Menzies, an - Hufeland Index Page 663 - officer with his father in Arnold's legion, but John was then an infant. Major Alexander Menzies lived at Fredericksburg on the Cornell Farm. He was a Scotchman and royalist and died on Long Island. Capt. Duncan Campbell had …

There were a great many tories in Quaker Hill, Fredericksburg, Dover, Beckman, and New Fairfield in Connecticut. Newtown, in Connecticut, contained only seven whigs, and one of them got so drunk one 4th of July at dinner that he died, and so there remained only six. Adjutant James Grant had been a major in the British service and lived on the place where Osbourn afterwards …

I don't know the first names of Hoag, and Major McKay. Major Menzies and James Grant were both prisoners on their parole which I believe was not to go further from home than six miles. Archibald Campbell, killed at Ward's house, was, I believe, only a Captain, but was soon to be promoted to a majority in one of the new raised corps. The name of Crawford, of Fredericksburg or …