1845. [marg: + B] occupied by Major Ross &c on Gist's surprise is now owned by Mr. October 3d. Joseph Odell of Gren=burgh on the Saw-Mill River Road: "I was born in the year 1766 and remember well the Battle of White Plains. When the Cannonade com=menced I went on the hill in rear of my father's house a few rods south of where I now live to try if I could get a sight of the troops, when an armed…

George McChain at the surprise at Orser's was refused quarter in consequence of having been concerned in setting fire to some houses and barns of the British Refugees, and of having attempted to burn Colonel DeLancey's house at West Farms by firing some barrels of tar which were extinguished. Paulding was considered a prisoner of consequence, and, having before escaped several times when captured,…

The place where Colonel Hatfield surprised a party of Americans who had been below was probably at William Underhill's about a mile south of Lent's Hill. Some American troops were [certainly] once surprised there early in the morning. [marg: x] Vermille's house, where Isaac (Uck) Odell and two others, guides, were surprised and taken in June '81, on their return from an excursion to Morrisania, h…

cuts on his arm and had his head cleft open by the sabre. He was left for dead, but recovered to the astonishment of every one. Elijah Vincent was from near East chester Village and he had a brother who was a black-smith and had his shop, in the Revolutionary War, near where Armstrong's tavern was afterwards built. Soon after the French Army came to West Chester County, a detachment of Lauzun's c…

Philipse was taken up and sent for safety to Simsbury mines, in Connecticut, where he was soon after paroled and returned home. It was in the summer or fall of 1776, soon after the affair 1845. 60. of the Phoenix and Rose that the Fort at Dobbs Ferry was built which stood adjacent to Von Livingston's house on the east side of the road, the remains of which are still visible Observed the Fort was…

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 3rd. Jackson Odell. "I heard my father often say that George McChain was killed in consequence of being concerned in burning the houses and barns of some Royalists and of having attempted the destruction of Colonel …