was the captain and Abijah Harris was the Lieutenant of a militia company in Bedford, to which my neighbor James Sutton belonged.

Colonel Armand and with his legion was sometime in North castle and Bedford. Col. Holmes was with the party that took Bedford. Holmes was a bad man."

Nov. 17th James Sutton, of Bedford aged 88: "I was in Capt. Vermille's company of militia of which Abijah Harris was Lieut. A man was here trying to get a pension for [his] the widow. Col. Harris and the [men] man were from Bedford. I do not know where Vermille was from originally. Probably from below?" [marg: see origl p. 101.]

Nov. 18th James Lyon and James Sutton: "Lieut. Abijah Harris was a good and skilful soldier - So was Captain Yaup Vermilyea, but he was somewhataddicted to plundering. Succabone Street is about two miles from Bedford in a westerly direction and commences when you turn to the right and ascend a hill in coming from Bedford to this place. The Refugees several times came to Suckabone Street and were pursued from thence to Clark's corner. We were in a skirmish near Clark's corner, when Capt. Pritchard, and Captains Moseman and Vermille with their companies pursued the Refugees to that place, which is about six miles below Old North Castle Church on the Tarrytown road. The Americans when they attacked occupied ground much higher than the Refugees, in consequence of which although they fired two or three rounds, they overshot the enemy, doing them no injury.