1845. Septr. 30. Jackson Odell: Captain Pray, as I have always understood, was a Rhode Islander. Col. John Odell's famous gray horse presented to him by Governor Van Cortlandt broke loose and escaped on the surprise of Captain Williams at Orsers house, but running northerly for Colbergh was recovered. Gen. Vaughan was encamped at Odell's hill for six [interl: (?)] weeks, in the course of which …

General Philip Van Court= land used to say that he considered him as a tactician fully equal to Baron Steuben. His defection was said to have arisen from paternal advice, and the father in consequence became unpopular and was com= pelled to move up the river near Albany where he continued to preach long after the Revolutionary war. Among the papers which De =lancey found at Colonel Greene's quart…