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Septr. 30. Jackson Odell: Captain Pray, as I have always understood, was a Rhode Islander.

Col. John Odell's famous gray horse presented to him by Governor Van Cortlandt broke loose and escaped on the surprise of Captain Williams at Orsers house, but running northerly for Colbergh was recovered.

Gen. Vaughan was encamped at Odell's hill for six [interl: (?)] weeks, in the course of which time Odell's orchard was cut down except one or two trees, about one thousand bushels of wheat destroyed in the sheaf and his fat hogs killed for the army. For this last, that is the hogs, he was afterwards when confined in the Sugar House, fully paid. This must have occurred in the Fall of 1776. (2)

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=fugees named Henry Trencher being in advance and riding at speed, passed the ambuscade, and wheeling about repassed through a shower of shot, and, with his horse escaped unhurt.

Colonel Ritzema was an able officer who had been in the Dutch service. General Philip Van Court= land used to say that he considered him as a tactician fully equal to Baron Steuben. His defection was said to have arisen from paternal advice, and the father in consequence became unpopular and was com= pelled to move up the river near Albany where he continued to preach long after the Revolutionary war.

Among the papers which De =lancey found at Colonel Greene's quarters on the 13th of May 1781, and which were soon after sent by him with