November 30th Capt. John Romer "The three captors of André stopped at my fathers in the morning before day and took breakfast, and took with them a dinner prepared by my mother and deposited in a pewter basin. After the capture they forgot the basin and the dinner which I was sent for and found it where they had left it on the knoll east of the road and north of the brook. They soon left our hous…

The others were about half a mile (or thereabouts) off to the east on the hill. Abraham Martling who kept Tammany Hall in New York, was wounded on board one of the American galleys in the battle with the Phoenix and Rose lying off Tarrytown. These galleys were down as low nearly as Dobbs Ferry when the battle began, and then they gradually approached the British. He (Abraham Martling) was with th…

He meant to fire upon them from a wall piece he had with him loaded with slugs and which he said would reach them (half way across the river). Armand a swamp where they could not follow him. On the 26th of May 1779, a party of Refugees suddenly came upon Tarrytown. The inhabitants drove their cattle in great alarm into the woods north of Pocantico Brook. on the first approach of the enemy. In co…