Macdonald, John. Interview with Vail, Lydia, b.c.1772; (1848-10-19). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1403. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).

- Hufeland Index Page 724 - October 19th Lydia Vail of Somers. (?) "When the house of my grandfather Richardson Davenport was attacked in May 1781, I was a girl ten or eleven years old or thereabouts. I was at Davenport's house a few minutes after the Refugees left. Part of them approached in front of the building and part by the road from the Croton, which road then passed by …

This was their account which I heard at the time and often afterwards. When the Refugees came up they fired a volley to signalize their friends in the orchard near Pine's Bridge, and ap- -proached the house without making fur- -ther use of their arms calling upon the inmates to surrender. The young lieutenant always slept with a pair of loaded pistols upon a stand at the head …

- Hufeland Index Page 727 - dead at the door. He was the first one they killed on breaking in. Flagg though desperately wounded was yet alive and they despatched him. Four or five were lying dead in the house, and four or five were dead where the tents stood east of the house, besides many wounded. Great part - at least one half of the Rhode Island regiment were ut off at this …

These whortleberry bushes were by or near to the public highway (that is, the Crompond and Pines Bridge road). They soon after took the bodies of the dead officers and buried them with the honors of war in Crompond church yard, depositing the remains of Greene and Flagg, and, I believe, those of the rash young lieutenant in one common grave. The widow of Colonel Greene was …