1845. Jackson Odell - Sept. 18. " Cushing was some time engaged in preparing his expedition and it was got up with great care. The second in command was Lieutenant Blake a good soldier. The party consisted of one hundred and ten men picked men of the Massachusetts line, all young and enterprising and all volunteers, together with five guides who were always mounted, viz: Michael Dyckman, Abraham D…

They gained the Saw Mill by crossing some open fields called Van Tassels slope a little south of Van Tassels hill where they expected a charge. A small party of militia under Captain Sybert Acker joined them when they came to the Dobbs Ferry road near Colonel Odells. My father was with Colonel Thompson on the morning of the attack and carried to a place of security the daughter of Mr. Young. after…

James Toshey (who belonged to Totten's Company) boasted at this time that he could show more rebel blood upon his sword than any of the detachment. De Lancey, on his return from the pursuit of Captain Cushings, stopped at James McChain's and took breakfast. He slept there a short time with boots and spurs on. Enquiring [page break] 26. the name of the Officer who commanded the American detachment …

John Odell was then despatched to a hill near Twitching's corner, where one of the relief companies had been posted, but it had marched a day before to Wrights Mills. Upon the first intelligence of Newton's advance, Jonathan Odell conducted a daughter of Joseph Young afterwards Mrs. Van Wart on horseback to a place of safety. The horse he rode was a the Courtland grey. Tuesday September 23rd. - "T…