Macdonald, John. Interview with Orser, Talman, 1766-1862; (1850-10-17). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 1020. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026.
resides at 65 Stanton St, but am not certain. She is a daughter of Jabez Sherwood of the Log-Bridge over the Byram, is about 80 years old, and must know the Revolutionary transactions of her native neighborhood.
Oct. 17th Talman Orser, of Ossining, aged 82 : "There were four corners at Twitchings during the Revolutionary war formed by the White Plains and Pines Bridge road and the [marg: North Ca…
There was a party of women about here who in the beginning of the war attacked a Tea pedlar and an Irishman named James Dunlap, and compelled him to sell tea to them for continental money. Their number was fifteen or twenty. They lay in wait for him about three miles above the old church on the N. R. [marg: New Rochelle? North River] Turnpike on the road. They got as much as they wanted for the pr…