[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] nearer home. This was at Pawling, Dutchess County, and, fearing to trust himself again to the vengeance of Captain Townsend, he arranged with Colonel Morehouse, a VV hig of the neighborhood, to raise a body of volunteers and capture them. When their rendezvous was surrounded, Crosby, he having again made a false enlistment, was dragged out from under a bed, where he had taken refuge, and complained that his leg was so much injured that he could not walk. The accommodating colonel took him on his horse, and, of course, he soon got away. For three years Crosby continued in the employ of the committee of safety, but at last the Tories, marveling much at the detection of their covert undertakings, fixed suspicion upon him A band traced him to the house of his brother-in-law in the Highlands, and beat him until they left him for dead. They were followed by a company of Whigs who pursued them to the Croton River, where some were killed and others driven into the stream. It was months before Crosby recovered, and it was then plain that his days of usefulness as a spy were past. He ioined Captain Philip Van Cortlandt's company, and was appointed a sub-ordinate officer. ' While on duty at Teller's Point, in the spring of 1780, he decoyed a boats crew from a British ship in the stream to the shore by parading on the beach a soldier dressed in Lafayette's uniform.