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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 216 (part 4)

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Seeing a British vessel anchored off the Point, he caused one of a party of six men who were with him to display him-self in Lafayette's uniform, so conspicuously as to draw the attention of the crew, while he and the other five secreted themselves in ambush. The ruse succeeded. A boat put out from the vessel manned by eleven men, under command of a lieutenant, to

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