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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 91 (part 2)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The largest of their ships sustained the greatest damage; many shots were fired through her, and one of our shells, bursting on board her, threw them in great confusion; eighteen or twenty of their men jumped overboard, three or four of them swam onshore, and the rest are supposed to be drowned." 1 An interesting account of this action, as well as of