History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 239
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] a courier told him that the battle of Bunker Hill was soon to be fought. Never pausing for a moment, he turned about and dashed away for the scene. As one horse gave out he procured another and another, and reached Charlestown Neck in the midst of the fray. Handing his horse to a friend, because it was too val-uable to be shot, he runs on foot across the Neck, then swept by the guns of the enemy's shipping, and up the hill, and leaps into the trench on the heights. Putnam 1 Oration by Chaumey M. Depew, entitled " Incidents in the History of Peekskill and Vicinjty," deliveied in Peekskill, July 4, 1707. :5ss BISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COI NTV. wrings his hand and says: ' Pomeroy, you here! God! I believe a cannon would wake you if you slept in the grave.' He offers him the command, but he refuses, and takes his place with the Connecticut