Those in front might have offered quarter, but Shubal Reynolds said no quarter was offered by any one, as his brother told him. This, Shubal Reynolds said, was the account his brother gave him, and both brothers were men of veracity.

Brom. (Abraham) Barrett was at our house, a day or two before he was hanged. He was a simple, inoffensive man. I never heard he was an Irishman

My father's name was William, and before the Revolutionary war was one

of the King's Justices of the Quorum. Having taken the oath of allegiance &c he made it a point of honor not to take up arms. --

At the time Lord Stirling quartered at our house Genl. Washington frequently rode over here, and once said to my father: "I am sorry, Mr. Anderson, to hear that you are opposed to our cause!" My father assured him such was not the case and gave as a reason why he would not take up arms that he could not consistently to do so after the oath he had taken, but said that in heart he was inclined to be a whig, &c. He was moreover infirm of body being ruptured. This explanation was entirely satisfactory to Washington who assured my father that he properly appreciated and approved of his motive, and told him if he was ever molested to apply to him for protection. --

We were never molested while the American army

remained in near White Plains. I had a half brother named Jonathan who at the beginning of the revolution raised a company of minutemen, but some one was promoted over him and he immediately went below with nineteen of his men and received a captaincy in one of the Regular Provincial Regiments, but which I do not know.