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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 195 (part 2)

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[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] One of the enemy's mortally wounded on that occasion was Donop himself, whom Greene very tenderly cared for until his death. Greene, at his post on the Croton, says General Heath in his Memoirs, had "practiced the greatest vigilance in guarding this ford in the night time, taking off the guards after sunrise, appre-hending that the enemy would never presume to cross the river in the day time." ( Jilbert Totten, a native of that portion of Westchester County, who was in the enemy's service, informed de Lancey about Greene's custom of removing the guards at daybreak, and guided him to the spot. At the time Greene was asleep in the house of Rich-ardson Davenport, some distance back from the river. In the same bedroom with him wore Major Flagg (also a gallant officer) and a young lieutenant, and the men were quartered in tents around the dwelling. De Lancey's party crossed the ford unobserved and quickly surrounded the house1. The young lieutenant, aroused by the com-