Macdonald, John. Interview with Weed, Jacob T., b.c.1804; (1850-10-16). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1614. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).
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- Hufeland Index Page 1018 - Octr. 16th Jacob T. Weed, of Horseneck Village, Innkeeper, &c. "Horseneck Meetinghouse stands very nearly in the same spot as the old building in the Revolutionary war. Matthew Mead's house is about a mile and a little more from Horseneck Meeting House. In May, 1780, the sentinel at the stone house was distant from the guard- -house about 200 …
Chimney corner is in Indian Harbor and is about a mile and a half from Horseneck Meeting House in a southerly direction. Mr. Theodore Mead is intelligent and obliging, and I think will let you see his grandfather's papers, but not one of that Mead family is, or ever has been military, or fond of war. Andrew and Richard Mead were of a different family. Mr. Elizabeth Mead …