Macdonald, John. Interview with Schofield, Mr.; (1844). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 190. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026.
Saml. Oakley contd.
[margin: + Jotham.] seldom paid. This, I think, is what
I have generally heard on the subject. The first name of Purdy, who was
killed at Maroneck, I don't know.
Mr. Schofield. Mr! Schofield
"Colonel Rogers, with his regiment of
about four hundred men, came to Mamaroneck one morning, soon after the British landed at Pelham, and encamped
on the level ground, on the top of Heath…
Rogers was
quartered at a School house situated on
the said cross road and came near
being taken. He escaped to the camp
ground which where he kept his ground,
but the troops were for a while in great
confusion. His men were Americans
but not in uniform, and this created con
-fusion in the American ranks where
some also wore plain clothes. Part of
their prisoners escaped from the Americans
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There was a great quantity
of rum, flour, pork, &c, in the houses
and barns on the landing which he des-
-troyed or had removed. Rogers was at
the time an old and rough looking
man. The turnpike road and bridge
over Maroneck river is south of where
the road into bridge formerly were. There
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Mr. Schofield contd.
was much talk at the time of bringing
Rogers to court martial, and it was
s…
Schofield contd.
was much talk at the time of bringing
Rogers to court martial, and it was
said that nothing but the destruction
and capture of the stores at Maroneck
saved him.
Roads. The road that runs south west to
the Coutants from the New Rochelle
and White Plains road begins one mile
and an half from New Rochelle village. The road which that runs north east to
Quaker Meeting house commences…