A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. II — Passage 87 (part 2)
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Near forty of the Indians were killed, or desperately wounded; among others, Nimham, a chieftain, who had been in England, and his son; and it was re-ported to have stopped a larger number of them, who were excellent marks-men, from joining General Washington's army. The Indian doctor was taken; and he said, that when Nimham saw the grenadiers close in his rear, he called out to his people to fly, 'that he himself was old, and would die there;' he ■wounded Lieut. Col. Simcoe, and was killed by Wright, his orderly Hussar. The Indians fought most gallantly; they pulled more than one of the cavalry from their horses; French, an active youth, bugle-horn to the Hussars, struck at an Indian, but missed his blow; the man dragged him from his horse, and