October 10th Rebecca Odell, of Yonkers: Colonel Norton's party passed up the Saw Mill river road, as I saw them, being then 10 years old. He soon after must have got upon the Sprain road. It was a very cold night. Mrs. Babcock was from New Haven. Her maiden name was Isaacs. She was a very handsome and remarkably fine woman. Babcock himself was from Rhode Island. Gist was an elderly man and deepl…

He had his parole for a month or so. In that time he and his wife thought it best to go below. It was cold -- I the Fall of 1777 or 1778. In 1776, before the battle of White Plains, the British [inter: horse] came by way of Hunt's to Valentine's hill, &c. The British army was then lying on Hunt's hill. "Mrs. Philipse was the widow Rutgers and her maiden name was Williams. She was an English woma…