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take any advantage which might offer. The party returned the next day with 

 six tory prisoners, three of whom were wounded by the broad-sword. One of 

 our volunteers, named Hunt, received a dangerous wound through the shoulder 

 and lungs ; the air escaped from the wound at every breath. Dr. Eustis 

 came to the lines, and dilated the wound in the breast ; and as the patient is 

 athletic, and had not sustained a very copious loss of blood, he recommended 

 repeated and liberal blood letting — observing that in order to cure a wound through 

 the lungs, you must bleed your patient to death. He eventually recovered, which 

 is to be ascribed principally to the free use of the lancet, and such abstemious 

 living, as to reduce him to the greatest extremity. A considerable number of 

 wounded prisoners receive my daily attention. 



"A gentleman volunteer, by name Requaw, received a dangerous wound and 

 was carried into the British lines; I was requested by his brother t3 visit him, 

 under the sanction of a flag of truce, in company with Dr. White, who resides in 

 this vicinity. This invitation I cheerfully accepted; and Mr. Requaw having 

 obtained a flag from the proper authority and procured horses, we set of in the 

 morning, arrived at "Westchester before evening, and dressed the wounded man. 

 We passed the night at Mrs. Bartow's, mother-in-law of Dr. W. She has re- 

 mained at her farm between the lines during the war, and being friendly to our 

 interest, has received much abusive treatment from the royalists. We were 

 treated in the most friendly manner, and her daughter, an amiable well educated 

 girl, entertained us in conversation till one o'clock in the morning, relating 

 numerous occurences and incidents of an interesting nature, respecting the royal 

 part)\ The next day we visited our patient again, paid the necessary attention 

 and repaired to a tavern, where I was gratified with an interview with the much 

 famed Colonel De Lancey, who commands the Refugee Corps. He conducted with 

 much civility, and having a public dinner prepared at the tavern, he invited us 

 to dine with him and his officers. After dinner, Colonel De Lancey furnished 

 us with a permit to return with our flag ; we rode ten miles, and took lodgings in 

 a private bouse. Here we were informed that six of our men, having taken from 

 the refugees thirty head of cattle, were overtaken by forty of De Lancey's corps 

 and were all killed but one, and the cattle re-taken. In the morning breakfasted 

 with a friendly Quaker family, in whose house was one of our men who had 

 been wounded when four others were killed ; we dressed his wounds, which were 

 numerous and dangerous. In another house we saw four dead bodies, mangled 

 in a most inhuman manner by the refugees, and among them, one groaning under 

 five wounds on his head, two of them quite through the skull bone with a broad- 

 sword. This man was capable of giving us an account of the murder of his four 

 companions. They surrendered and begged for life, but their entreaties were 

 disregarded, and the swords of their cruel foes were plunged into their bodies so 

 long as signs of life remained. We found many friends to our cause, who reside 

 on their farms between the lines of the two armies, whose situation is truly de- 

 plorable, being continually exposed to the ravages of the tories, horse thieves, 

 and cow boys, who rob and plunder them without mercy, and the personal abuse 

 and punishments which they inflict is almost incredible." 



About a mile below the residence of Mr. William Smith, on the Pines 

 Bridge road, a narrow lane diverges south-west to Davenport, or Dan- 



