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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.

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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…
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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 [page b…
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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 [page break] Mr. Schofield contd. was much talk at the time of bringing Rogers to court martial, and it was s…
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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…
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