919 269 York State Prison. The Refugee troops, I believe, in general did not receive pay or clothing, but they all drew provisions. [margin: Post] Mrs. Day's Tavern stood the first house below Peter Myers on the left hand going to New York. that is, on the east side of the old Post road. I don't know whether she ever kept Morris's house for Genl. Knyphausen when it was his head quarters. Her nam…

On the 22d of July 1781, I saw a Refugee who was taking horses across Haerlem river, chased by the Americans and French, but he escaped with the horses. At this time there was a British battery where Judge Graham's house now is, and a fort and cannon upon Snake Hill. The old road at Morrisania, I think, passed along the Hill down. During the hard winter a British vessel was frozen up opposite my…