[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 477 »| ' inclosure in a swamp on the rear of the estate and tiei there keeping them in order to save them from the "« dreaded "Cowboys" who infested this region. At mi last came the end, and peace permitted the veterans i v I to return to their neglected and in many cases devas-k tated homes. In 1812 again the alarm of war was it I sounded and Somers was represented in that conflict) k although the scene of hostilities was further removed * : than in the war of independence. Wilhelmus Ger-ii! ritsen, whose patrimonial estate lay near Croton Dam, in and who afterward married Letty, sister of Samuel Vii Teed, was a captain and served during the war. The u J names also of James Ganong and Nathan Brown d« appear from this town. The grandson of the latter e; : gentleman, Stephen Brown, served throughout the War It of Secession. It appears that these gentlemen were Hi commissioned officers. Of the private soldiers who were engaged in this it! war no record can be found, although members of the ii families of Brown, Travis, Horton, Mead and Green •! were among the soldiery at this period. In the