James Morris (the Sheriff's) house was built in the woods where no house had previously stood. I don't know where the Refugee Settlement burnt in 1781 by Colonel Hull stood, but it was probably near the old Mill which stood on Mill Brook, a little below James Morris's Gate on the Post road. Colonel Roger Morris who lived in the house now owned by Madame Jumel, was no relation to our family. He was a British officer and returned home at the conclusion of the war.

There is no stream running into [marg: wrong] the Sound or Haerlem River between [marg: Mill] Mill Brook and the Bronx.

Lieut. Colonel Anthony Walton White was related to our family, and was a Jerseyman He told me that when he attacked the Refugees he approached DeLancey's bridge

cautiously, took sentinels, and made his men pull off their coats and lay them on the planks for fear of giving an alarm, as it was his intention to make prisoners of Colonel DeLancey & other Refugee Officers who were then at a neighboring house enjoying a cock fight.

-- Notwithstanding all his precautions however, they escaped. Colonel White settled at the West, but finally returned, and died, I think, at New Brunswick, New Jersey.

[marg: wrong] I lived some years at Tarrytown [inter: and] know exactly where Major André was taken. His captors were lying in ambush on the east side of the road.