Soon after this John White (Israel's father) and a party of three or four went below to East Chester and New Rochelle and plundered a great quantity of bedding, clothes &c. They were all on horseback, but were pursued by the Refugees and were overtaken last of Abijah Haviland's or the Buckley farm, near Sandy Brook in Purchase Street. All made their escape but White who was overtaken and shot off his horse just as he had crossed the brook.

After the battle of White Plains, probably in 1779, a Cornet and six men stopped all night at my father's, and early the next morning went to White Plains to reconnoitre. The German Yagers were then at White Plains. They went as far as Dick's Tannery, or rather as far as the flat east of Dick's. Seeing a strong detachment near where the Court House was, they wheeled about to return. A Yager, resting his rifle by the house of Isaac Oakley (Willis's afterwards) shot a private soldier, one of the six, who I think were of Sheldon's. He was brought to our house on horseback being severely wounded, having been shot in the breast, the ball passing quite through the body, and being held only by the skin. He was brought into our house and placed in one of the front rooms. His blood flowed profusely through the bed and

over the floor. He begged of my mother to take [care] of and conceal him as he had been taken prisoner and paroled, but had broken his parole, and if taken now he feared he should inevitably be hanged. My mother thereupon muffled his face so as to conceal his beard and put on his head one of her own night caps so as to pass him off as a woman if the enemy came - saying she would in that event say he was a sick female.