His party intended to plunder us. They called us tories. He did not know how few we were. November 10. Nelson Schofield (who was long imprisoned in Lancaster): - Purdy immediately went below and got a protection, and lived on Long Island till peace. After the war he came here, but the people wouldn't let him stay, and he went to Upper Canada where he died. Fade Donaldson once went below and retur…

Returning past my father's house on the Cross Road from Mamaroneck to Quaker Meeting House, they roused us from bed in order to get some water for the wounded. They advanced in such perfect silence that nobody knew of it and surprised sentry and guard. The cross road which now lies leads from Heathcote's Hill to the Quaker Meeting house was then a mere farm road extending about three quarters of a…

Neck and take them over to Long Island. Lounsbury told his wife to send for Joseph Purdy and tell him he was among the rocks of Great Lot. (Purdy came, and Lounsbury sent him to such roya- -lists as he thought he could induce to enlist with him.) Purdy told the men where Lounsbury was and he persuaded them to enlist. Purdy proved a traitor and informed the principal whigs of a [Mamaroneck] - viz. …

Delancey's Neck &c. was part of the manor of Scarsdale. Governor Delancey had three children -- John [Peter?] Stephen and Susan. Stephen and Susan died childless, & John [Peter?] took all. Colonel Rogers came to Mamaroneck on October 21st about sunrise with about 400 men. Part of his regiment took possession of the high ground and part went to the village of Mamaroneck destroying the American stor…

[margin: 392 177] [margin: 50.] [margin: PAGES] and took. The Americans retreated by the same road - that is, by the fields three quarters of a mile to the Cross Road, then to the Quaker Meeting House; and so on to White Plains. The guides and pioneers pulled down the fences for the troops and left them so. A small American guard over the stores at Maroneck was attacked in the morning of the 21st …