Macdonald, John. Interview with Strang, Thomas, 1763-1851; (1845-10-06). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 380. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026.
1845.
or below, there being a cross road
within a mile of Ward's house, both
north and South (?) It was in 1776,
and General Vaughan encamped at
Odell's Hill.
Monday, October 6th
Thomas Strang, of Yorktown,
about two miles from Crompond:
"My father and his three brothers were
born at Crompond in Cortlandt's
Manor. In the Revolution two
of them, viz, my uncle, Major Joseph
and my Father Henry Str…
Both Greene and
Flagg attempted to defend themselves. DeLancey's Refugees attempted to
carry him, Greene, off, but finding him
dying, they left him in the woods, by
the side of the private road or farm path
leading from Danforth's house to the
Crompond road where he was soon
afterwards found, by a patrol command
-ed by my father, Captain Henry Strang
being then quite dead, and lying about
half way…