[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] gees in the British service. This was in the summer of 1781. It is but just to say that Colonel James Holmes was a type of the un-fortunate rather than the bloody-minded Westchester County Tories who ultimately took up arms against their country. Just previously to his raid on Poundridge and Bedford, Tarleton, in conjunction with Simcoe's Bangers, successfully attacked an American militia force at Crompond, in the present Town of York-town. This was on the 21th of June. About thirty of the Americans were killed or taken prisoners, the captives being conveyed to New York and incarcerated in the notorious Sugar House. This was the second raid on Crompond within a month. A former British party came there from Verplanck's Point under Colonel Abercrombie, guided by Caleb Morgan, a Tory of Yorktown, and burned a store-house and the parsonage. In fact, the country above the Croton River, which up to this time had been comparatively secure against British incursions, was now pretty generally visited by hostile troops, and the numerous Tories of Cortlandt Manor were in high feather consequently. To the same general period belongs an attack made by Colonel Emmerich's men on a continental guard at Tarrytown, which, though a small affair — in fact only one of a vast number of minor occur-rences unrelated to the main current of events. — is memorable for FROM JANUARY, 1779, TO SEPTEMBER, 1780 459 the incident of the inhuman killing of Sergeant Isaac Martlingh.