History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 177 (part 4)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] On the 11th of October, he says, fourteen British seamen were taken prison-ers at Teller's (Croton) Point by Captain Hallet's company of New York militia. From the time of the landing of the British expedition below Ver-planck's Point on the 31st of May until the ultimate withdrawal of Clinton to Xew York City in the latter part of July, our county suf-fered much from ravages. The principal event of this period was the burning of Bedford by Lieutenant-Colonel Banastre Tarleton, who had participated in the massacre of the Stockbridge Indians in 1778. This was the same Tarleton who became famous by his sanguinary doings in the South in 1780 and 1781. A body of about ninety American cavalry, under Colonel Elisha