Macdonald, John. Interview with Rundle, Sarah Lyon, c.1789-1863; (1847-09-18). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 1180. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026.
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Septbr 18th. Mrs. Sally Randall:
"I am the daughter of Andrew Lyon
and Enrico Sniffen, sister of Mary Sniffen
Bloomer's killed near Bloomer's at Rye Neck. Her
father, and my grandfather, Jonathan
Sniffen, was a royalist, and was beloved
at or near New York, and wrote to his daugh
-ter to bring down a fat creature. She
accordingly started of a beautiful moonlight
night ac…