December 16th Jackson Odell: "My neighbour, Mr. Mead, has been over to Quaker Ridge since you were there, and reported to me that Mr. Calvin Mead now recollects the house where Tarleton with his legion stopped in 1779, and enquired for Colonel White who was at the time in the farmers barn, &c. It was the farm house occupied owned by Roger Brown near Round Hill. Col. White was at the moment engaged…

The countersign was: "Long Live King George", with three slaps of the hand above the head. There were more than seventeen prisoners taken -- my father always said about thirty -- seventeen or eighteen were taken at DeLancey's Quarters, and the rest at another house. During the retreat Michael Dychman rode by the side of Captain Cushing, and it was owing as my father always said principally to his …