133. November 8. Abigail Park. "My maternal grand mother's name was Mary Lyon, wife of Israel Lyon. She resided two miles South (on the Post Road) of Bedford Village, and was burnt out on Sunday morning soon after day light on the 11th of July, 1779. My mother went up on the next day, but my grand mother had then removed to Ridgebury in Connecticut. During all the Revolutionary war, my parents liv…

Simcoe on his return the same day halted before our door, and being thirsty asked my mother for a bowl that he might drink from the well, but she refused, saying, "Good for nothing cruel fellows like you who go about burning people's houses ought to drink like cattle out of the brook upon all fours. Away with you!" &c. She rated him so severely that he lost his temper and seeing my father in the h…

November 11th Among those who drove cattle below to the enemy was a farmer of Greenwich, Connecticut, named Jabez Husted, who on one occasion had collected a drove with which he was going below in the night. Passing through Rye, on the Post Road, he was informed that Captain John Thomas with a com- -pany of thirty or forty militia had taken a position on the road to intercept par- -ties who droves…

Mary Sniffen with a party of friends from near Round Hill or thereabouts, forming a considerable company, was killed at Rye Neck in 1779 (?). The party escorting her were driving cattle below and stopped a moment at Stoney brook to water when they were fired upon by some militia under John Maynard of Purchase Street near Merritt's corner (that is, below) who were lying in ambush. Her friends escap…

[margin: 274 261] [margin: 139.] [margin: 1845] always protested he did'nt know there was a female in the Company. The escort from Round Hill reached Sniffen's Hill late at night and as the evening advanced Mary was extremely anxious for their arrival in order to proceed on her journey chiding her escort's tardiness & displaying great uneasiness. She had prepared her wedding dress, and for a half …