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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 319
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] squadrons of Tarleton's ami Simcoe's British Light i j Horse, about two hundred in number, who had proh-| ably come from White Plains by way of Pine's Bridge, "Bolton's History of the County of Westchester, vol. ii., p. 382 (old edition). '•• Report No. Hons, of li.pie*. nlatives. Thirty-first Congress, First Session. —Aff. of Thomas Strang. 11 BoltoD, vol. ii., p. 382 (old vditioii >. >s See Chapter on Cortlandt. YORKTOWN. 447 fell suddenly upon the militia at Crompoad, as they were at breakfast in the houses of the village, and killed and captured about thirty of them. The prisoners were incarcerated in the New York Sugar House, a prison of