Saml. Oakley contd. Bon Foy's Point is owned by Davenport It is not on the Neck, but on the main, contiguous to the Neck." [marg: 1844.] October 12th Samuel Oakley: "Mr [Jotham] Purdy belonged to DeLanceys and was killed in 1777 at Maroneckx [marg: x sometimes written Mamaroneck.] Bridge. A party of DeLancey's went up on an excursion, and Purdy was with the advance guard of about twenty cavalry.…

Ogden's sentinel was pacing the long piazza in front of the house, and when he turned was pinioned, and threatened with immediate death if he made a noise. They then went to the stable and saddled and bridled his horse -- then to his chamber and woke him. He had retired fatigued and slept through all the noise. When he awoke the first thing he saw was the glittering of three dragoons swords over h…

The troops were directed to sit back upon the haunches, and the horses then kept their heads more easily above water. Their number was about forty, and they crossed from the Point. [I think this was when the American and the French engineers measured the distance &c.] Captain Honeywell of the [American] West Chester Refugees was the brother of Philip Honeywell, and lived where Isaac Odell afterwa…

He was cautioned anxiously not to make the attempt. [ There was a pass above back of Honeywell's (or Watson's?) where there was a bridge which was guarded by in 1776 by the Americans. ] A party of the guides and others under Odell (Queré, John?) had been to Morrisania and were returning by the Sprain road. -- They were hungry and weary, and had five or six prisoners, and some of DeLancey's horses…

-- Dyckman's or the Farmers' Bridge, was taken up by the British during the war. It was built because they paid toll at King's Bridge. -- When an American party went down to Throgs Neck they were fired upon from the British fort at Whitestone (in 1781) and covered all over with sand but none killed. The party immediately retreated swigly up the Neck. [They were engineers. My uncle, James Oakley, …

Kipp and Holmes had their pistols, but it was said the men had not, which occasioned much censure towards the officers. They could not reach Mosiers men with their swords. In 1781, when Hull attacked the Refugees settlements he was at West Chester and retreated to East Chester, being soon followed by the Refugees who overtook him in East Chester. A detachment of Parson's brigade took possession o…

The Refugees rallied very soon after the destruction of their settlement, and followed Hull from West Chester to East Chester village. -- One of DeLancey's men was up with a flag and talking of some prisoners they had recently made, said to Cornelius Odell Oakley: "We'll have you next." -- Oakley replied, "That may well be, for who none of us can tell what may happen." He soon after received infor…