1845. 61. October 8th. Mr. Jackson Odell tells me he has ascertained from Mr. that Vincent's brother lived though cut to pieces, and that this barbarity was practiced not by the French but by Americans. October 3d. Jackson Odell. "I heard my father often say that George McChain was killed in con= sequence of being concerned in burning the houses and barns of some Royalists and of having attempt= …

I have understood that there was an American party overtaken and cut to pieces at Lent's Hill on the Tuckeyhoe road by the Refugees, and that at another time an American party was surprised near the break of day at William Underhill's, a [page break] 1845. mile south of Lent's Hill and most of them killed or captured. Van Nostrand was with the party at Lent's Hill (?). One of these, probably the l…