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HUNTINGTON TOWN RECORDS,
INCLUDING
BABYLON,
LONG ISLAND, N. Y.
1776 = = = 1873.
WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND INDEX
BY
CHARLES R. STREET. 1
VOLUME III.
LOW OF CONGRESS
SFP 19 1889 292.93 N.
TRANSCRIBED, COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY AND AT THE EXPENSE OF THE TWO TOWNS.
1889.
COPYRIGHT, 1889, BY THE TOWNS OF HUNTINGTON AND BABYLON, NEW YORK.
THE "LONG ISLANDER" PRINT : HUNTINGTON, L. I.
F129 .19119
COPY OF RESOLUTION
Resolved, That the sum of five hundred dollars be raised for continuing the work of editing and publishing the old records of this Town.
TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE, SS. HUNTINGTON, SUFFOLK CO.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a resolution passed at the Annual Town Meeting, held in the Town of Huntington, April 3, 1888.
PHILIP PEARSALL, Town Clerk.
May 20th, 1889.
TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE, BABYLON, SUFFOLK Co., N. Y.
I hereby certify that at the annual Town Meeting held in and for the town of Babylon, on the 3rd day of April, 1888, the sum of five hundred dollars was appropriated for publication of old town records.
JOSEPH A. DOUGLAS, Town Clerk.
Dated April 18th, 1889.
TOWN CLERK'S CERTIFICATE.
I hereby certify that I have compared, or caused to be compared, this printed volume with the original manu- script recorded in my office, and that I believe the same is a correct and exact copy of said original records where the same purport to be printed in full, and where desig- nated "abstract," that I believe the same to be true copies of the parts of the originals so printed, "errata" excepted. PHILIP PEARSALL, Town Clerk,
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INTRODUCTION.
The second printed volume of the Town Records ended with a paper dated December 15, 1775. This volume con- tinues the record in the order of dates, and begins about the opening of the Revolutionary War, and ends in 1873, about the time Babylon was, by act of the Legislature, erected into a separate town.
The papers printed in this volume, covering the period of the Revolutionary War, are quite voluminous and many of them are important, giving facts and details not hereto- fore printed, and though some of them may not be highly important, it was deemed best to insert them, as the origi- nals are chiefly loose papers, liable to perish soon ; and everything concerning this interesting period will grow in historical importance with the lapse of time. The record shows the ineffectual effort made by the inhabitants of Huntington, in connection with other towns, to prevent the capture of Long Island by the British troops ; the mil- itary organization of this town and lists of officers and soldiers; their participation in the battle of Brooklyn; their defeat by overwhelming numbers of the enemy on all sides, and the consequent subjugation of the people, followed by an armed occupation, the entrance of British soldiers into Huntington and the consternation which the event occasioned ; the quartering of the troops upon the inhabi- tants, the signing of the oath of allegiance to the king un- der the threat of banishment and a list of those who fled . into Washington's lines rather than submit. Many orders issued by and under the authority of British officers will
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be found, requiring the citizens here to aid in building forts in Brooklyn and on Lloyd's Neck, and to transport soldiers and military supplies from place to place. Lists of the militia forced into the British service are given and copies are printed of the orders under which the church in Huntington was converted into stables for horses, finally demolished and the material used in constructing Fort Golgotha on the burying hill. Lists are given of the grave stones taken up and used in the construction of the fort, and finally appears the evacuation of the town by the British soldiery in March, 1783, and the consequent rejoic- ing of the inhabitants. An appendix contains a list of claims presented, after the war, by the plundered inhabi- tants, the details of which furnished much interesting local history.
The period immediately succeeding the war was marked by great activity and energy on the part of the people. Churches were built of larger dimensions in place of those destroyed. Schools were re-established, the Huntington Academy was built by subscription, a public library found- ed in Huntington, and grants were made by the town, of sites for larger and better equipped flour mills. Lists are printed of the inhabitants, and the assessments of property show the relative wealth of the people. The record of the manumission of slaves, between 1800 and 1824, shows the names of slave owners and of the slaves. The numerous papers concerning the suit in chancery between the Nichol family and this town, involving the title to beaches and islands in the South Bay ; the subsequent efforts of both sides to secure a legislative grant, and the final compromise establishing the line, all of which covered a period of about twenty years, ending about 1824, are full of interest. Many important papers will be found adjusting the boun- dary between this and neighboring towns. Records are printed of divisions of early purchases from the Indians,
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known as Squawpit or Squampit, Baiting Place and East Neck, giving descriptions and lists of owners. The sale of the great body of the pine plains belonging to the town, took place about 1855. The agreements and deeds and controversies concerning these sales are important.
The records and papers concerning the War of the Re- bellion of the Southern States are printed, and may be briefly summarized as consisting of resolutions passed at Town Meetings and by the Board of Trustees of the Town, for raising money ; lists of contributors of money raised to pay for recruiting and forwarding volunteers; the raising of money by taxation and its payment to a finance com- mittee, and the disbursements of this committee for boun- ties and relief to families of soldiers during the war, to which may be added a complete list or quota of the troops furnished the United States by the Town of Huntington, during the entire period of the war, with details showing their period of service, battles engaged in, etc.
Care has been taken to include all records relating to. title to lands, including all conveyances by lease or deed by or to the Trustees of the Town, of lands either above or under tide water.
The year 1873 seemed to be an appropriate period at. which to close this volume, as the publication is thereby brought down late enough to include all papers relating to the organization of Babylon as a separate town. All records are now printed in which the Town of Babylon has a direct interest, except all of records of highways and a book of grants of lands by the Trustees of the Town, made about one hundred years ago. These have been re- served for a separate book and Huntington and Babylon have a like interest in them.
The liberality and unanimity with which the people of Huntington and Babylon have for several successive years voted appropriations for the printing of the Town Records,,
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is highly creditable to them, and with the publication of one more book, taking in the highway records, which will be the fourth volume, the work will be ended.
This volume covers a period of nearly one hundred years. It takes in three wars ; the Revolution of 1776, the second war with Great Britain in 1812, and the war of the Rebellion in 1860. The people performed their duty to the best of their ability in all these wars. During the first they were.a subjugated people with an army of occupation quartered upon them too powerful to be overcome ; they suffered almost every kind of oppression known to war, and peace found them diminished in number and despoiled of much of their property, but nevertheless full of cour- age, hope and joy over their independence, the dawn of liberty and the birth of a new nation. The War of 1812 scarcely left any traces upon this Town. The events of the Rebellion of the Southern States are so recent as to be fresh in the minds of most living persons, and any ex- tended comment is not called for. The record has been made, has been put in print and will endure for ages to come.
CHARLES R. STREET.
HUNTINGTON TOWN RECORDS.
[PREPARING FOR WAR. THE MILITARY OR- GANIZATION OF THE WESTERN TOWNS IN SUFFOLK COUNTY.]
[1775, Sept. 5.]
At a meeting at Smithtown, Sept. 5. 1775, for nomina- ting Field Officers for the Western Reg. of Suffolk, present,
From Huntington, John Sloss Hobart, Esq. Tho's Wickes, Esq. Dr Gilbert Potter, Capt Timothy Carll, Henry Scudder, Stephen Ketcham, Thos Brush Jr., John Squier, Eben' Platt. From Smithtown Tho's Tredwell, Esq, Jeffery Smith, Jacob Mills, Jonas Mills, Sam'l Phillips, Philetus Smith, Edmund Smith, Dan1 Smith. From Brookhaven, &c Wm Smith, Tho's Fanning, Noah Hallock, Wm Brewster, Jona. Baker, John Woodhull, Jos. Brown Sam1 Thompson, Danl. Roe, Nath' Roe, Wm Floyd was nominated Col .; Dr Gilbert Potter, Lt. Col .; Capt. Nathan Woodhull, Ist Major; Edmund Smith, 2ª Major ; Philip Roe, Adj. ; John Roe, Jr. Q. M .; Col. Nath1 Wood- hull, Brig. Gen.
Sept. 5, 1775, Eben' Miller was chosen Capt .; Caleb Woodhull, Ist Lt .; Jas. Davis, 2ª Lt .; and David Davis, Ensign, of 2ª Company in Brookhaven, in presence of
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Thos Helme, John Woodhull and Noah Hallock, Commit- tee men .*
("O"t, File No. 289.)
[1775. Sept. II.]
COMMITTEE CHAMBER, HUNTINGTON, Sept. 11, 75. Officers of the Ist three Militia Companies.
I. John Wickes, Capt .; Epenetus Conklin, Ist Lt. Jonah Wood, 2ª Lt. Ebenezer Prime Wood, Ensign.
2. Jesse Brush, Capt .: Epenetus Conklin, Ist. Lt .; Philip Conklin, 2ª Lt. ; Jos. Titus, Ensign.
3. Timothy Carll, Capt .; Gilbert Fleet, Ist Lt. ; Joel Scudder, 2ª Lt .; Nath1 Buffet Jr, Ensign.
4. The South part not yet elected officers. ("O," File No 288.)
[*The Huntington Records, relating to the Revolutionary War, will perhaps be better understood by an occasional refer- ence to the most important events that had already occurred, or were transpiring in the country at large. At this time, more than a year had elapsed since the people of Boston had emptied 342 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor. The Continental Congress had been in session just one year ; had voted to raise 20,000 men and had chosen George Washington Commander-in-chief. Lord Chatham's conciliatory measures toward America had been rejected in Parliament the preced- ing February ; the battle of Lexington had been fought the 19th of April of the same year. Ticonderoga and Crown Point had been captured by the rebels. Articles of confederation had been agreed upon. The 17th of May the battle of Bunker Hill had been fought and at the date of the above paper Col. Ethan Allen was making an attack on Montreal. Huntington had the previous June published to the world its Declaration of Rights .- C. R. S.]
[Such of these papers as were printed in a work entitled Revolutionary Incidents of Suffolk and Kings Counties, by Henry Onderdonk, Jr., and the originals of which have in some cases been lost, are in this book designated by the letter O .- C. R. S.]
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[LETTER OF GILBERT POTTER TO JOHN SLOSS HOBART.]
[1775, Dec. 10.]
HUNTINGTON, Dec. 10, 75.
SIR .- You will receive this by Major Brush, who is ap- pointed by the Committee to lay before the Congress, the state of the town as to their slackness in military prepara- tions, as also that we have great reason to believe all methods are used by our neighbors to make them indiffer- ent in this great contest. We not only beg your advice but assistance, for it is my opinion, if there is not a suffi- cient number of men immediately sent to effectually sub- due Queens Co. and to intimidate the people among us a great many from here will soon be in a little better condi- tion than the rebels of Queens Co., which we have great reason to believe is making interest with our slaves and other servants. I have exerted myself in my station but if nothing is done by your House, I must be obliged to desist; but as to myself as an individual, I am determined to live and die free.
I am sir, your most humble servant, GILBERT POTTER.
To John S. Hobart Esq. in Pro. Congress .*
(File No. 287.)
[TOWN MEETING.]
[1776, May 7.]
At A Town Meeting held this 7th Day of May 1776 the
[*Col. Nathaniel Woodhull and John Sloss Hobart were at this time delegates to the Continental Congress. Ebenezer Platt, of Huntington, received of Congress one hundred pounds of powder, Sept. 14, 1775 .- Holt's Jour. p. 146.]
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following Persons Chosen Trustees : Israel Wood Presi- dent, Capt. Timothy Carll Samuel Oakley Stephen Kellcy Solomon Ketcham Gilbert fleet Timothy Conkling.
Solomon Ketcham Town Clerk & Treasurer.
Ezekiel Conkling chosen Constable & Collecter with surty.
To take care of Intestate Estates Israel Wood Justic Williams.
Commissioners Thos Wicks Esq. Stephen Kellcy & Sol- omon Ketcham.
Surveyors Capt. Timothy Carll Israel Wood Stephen Kellcy Solomon Ketcham.
Assessors Stephen Kellcy Solomon Ketcham.
Surveyor Col. Conkling chosen.
Chosen to take care of the Poor the ensuing year. Mr. Joseph Lewis Timothy Conkling.
To take care of fires Col. Conkling Jesse Conkling Nath11 Oakley Capt. Elkanah Conkling, Abijah Ketcham, Thos. Wickes, esq. John Buffet Joshua Ketcham Zeb. Ketcham Abel Wood George Norton Willmoth oakley Jacob Oaks.
The hog act revised.
Voted that the Gates at Crabmeadow should be kept shut the ensuing year.
The same Day it was Voted that the Constable should set above and Timothy Conkling and Jesse Ketcham Be- low to see that good regulations be kept amongst the Boys & Negroes & if any be obstinate & will not submit to good order their Names shall be taken Down & Brought to the Authority.
(Town Meetings, Vol I, p. 326.)
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[1776, May 30.]
Return of Col. Smith's Regiment, May 30, 76.
Captains.
Lt's.
Ensigns.
Sarg's.
Corp's.
Drum's.
Fifers.
Privates.
Remarks.
David Pierson.
2
I
3
3
I
I 42
Ezekiel Mulford ..
2
3
3
I
I
40
Zeph. Rogers
2
3
3
I
I
33
Paul Reeve.
2
I
3
3
I
I
35
Jona Bailey.
2
I
3
3
I
I
27
Selah Strong
2
I
3
3
I
I
57
Nath'l Platt.
2
I
3
3
I
I
42
Thos. Wickes.
2
I
3
3
I
I
131
complete except I man
Total .
16|6
24 24 8 8 307
Complete in arms. do do do do
do except bayonets. do except bayonets.
want 15 guns and bay- nets complete. .
Drums, fifes, colors, all deficient .*
("O", File No. 286.)
[* In a letter dated June 24th, 1776, Wm. Smith, Chairman of the Committee of Safety, states he has "no doubt the Conti- nent proposes to protect the Island ; that the malitia of Suf- folk County but little exceeds 2,000"; and complains of the want of guns .- Onderdonk, 24. The officers of the 2d Company of Col. Josiah Smith's Regiment were as follows : Captain, Nathaniel Platt ; First Lieutenant, Samuel Smith ; Second Lieutenant, Henry Scudder ; Sergeants, John Stratton, John Carll, Jesse Bunce ; Corporals, James Hubbs, J. Mills, John Han .- Onderdonk, 28 .- C. R. S.]
[NOTE .- It appears by papers, File No. 269, that the first regiment of Suffolk County was organized as follows : Colonel, William Floyd ; Lieutenant, Col. Gilbert Potter ; Majors, Jef- frey Smith and Jesse Brush ; Adjutant, Philip Roe ; Quarter- master, John Roe. The following are the names of the Cap- tains of Companies and the number of men under each : Sam- uel Johnson, 117 : Ebenezer Miller, 71; Nathan Rose, 113; William Brewster, S2 ; Philetus Smith, 82 ; Joshua Rogers, 114 ; Epenetus Conklin, 99 ; Joel Scudder, 65 ; John Buffett, 52; Platt Vail, 59; Gilbert Carll, 56; Benajah Strong, 38 ; Daniel Rose, 76. Of these 26 were Lieutenants, 13 Ensigns, 52 Sergeants, 52 Corporals, 13 Clerks, 13 Drummers, 13 Fifers. Total, 1024 .- C. R. S.]
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[KING GEORGE III. BURNED IN EFFIGY.]
[1776, July 23.]
HUNTINGTON, July 23, 76.
Yesterday the Freedom and Independence of the Thir- teen United Colonies was, with beat of drum proclaimed at the several places of parade, by reading the Declaration of the General Congress together with the Resolutions of our Provincial Convention thereupon: which were ap- proved and applauded by the animated shouts* of the people who were present from all the distant quarters of this district. After which the flag which used to wave on Liberty-pole, having Liberty on one side, and George III. on the other, underwent a reform, i. e. the Union was cut off, and the letters George III were dscarded, being pub- licly ripped off : and then an effigy of the Personage, rep- resented by those letters, being hastily fabricated out of base materials, with its face like Dunmore's Virginia (negro) regiment its head adorned with a wooden crown and its head stuck full of feathers like Carleton and John- son's Savages, and its body wrapped in the Union, instead of a blanket or robe of state, and lined with gunpowder, which the original seems to be fond of. The whole, to- gether with the letters above mentioned, was hung on a gallows, exploded and burnt to ashes. In the evening the Committee of this town, with a large number of the prin- cipal inhabitants sat around the genial board, and drank
[* The successes of the American forces had been such as to inspire the people here with confidence. Gen. Howe's attack on Boston had been repulsed; the subsequent attack of Gen. Clinton on Charleston had been a failure ; the Declaration of Independence of the Colonies had been proclaimed on the 4th of this month and read to 20,000 militia in New York and the city had celebrated the event by overthrowing the statue of George III. Huntington was wild with joy and excitement but their happiness was soon nipped in the bud .- C. R. S.]
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13 patriotic toasts, among which were, The free and inde pendent States of America; The General Congress ; The Convention of the 13 States Our principal military Com- manders, and success and enlargement to the American Navy. Nor was the memory of our Late brave heroes, who have gloriously lost their lives in the cause of Liberty and their Country forgotton .- Holt's N. Y. Journal.
("O", File No. 285 )
[LETTER OF COL. POTTER TO GEN. WOOD. HULL. ARRIVAL OF BRITISH VESSELS* ON THE COAST.]
[1776, Aug. 26.]
HUNTINGTON, Aug. 26, 76.
I had not arrived at my house from Jamaica half an hour, before I received information by express from Capt. Thompson of Brookhaven, that two ships, one brig and three tenders had landed a number of regular troops between Old Man's and Wading Rivers, who at one o'clock were shooting cattle. Major Smith has ordered the detachment designed for your party to the eastward, and as our men are gone and the wind fresh to the east- ward, I well know they cannot lay there. I expect them in our bay before morning, the only harbor in the Sound.
* Lord Howe's plan for the capture of Long Island was evidently well considered. It was to land his army at Brook- lyn and at the same time make a feint of landing troops at the East end of the Island, and further west at Huntington, there- by intimidating the people at the East so that it would be dif- ficult to induce the militia to leave their homes and families behind to the mercy of the invader, in order to meet the enemy at Brooklyn .- C. R. S.]
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I have not ordered any men from here as yet, but am mustering them to make as good opposition as possible. We must have help here, every thing possible for me shall be done. I think Gen. Washington should be acquainted. Our women are in great tumult.
In great haste, yours. GILBERT POTTER .*
To Brig. Gen. Woodhull.t ("0", p. 31, File No. 284.)
[JUDGE HOBART AND JAMES TOWNSEND TO . THE CONVENTION.] [1776, Aug. 30.]
HUNTINGTON, Aug. 30.
To our unspeakable mortification we found, when we
[* Dr. Gilbert Potter was born in Huntington, January 8th, 1725, and was the son of Nathaniel Potter, who came from Rhode Island. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Williams. In 1756 he was a Captain in the French War, and was at Ticonderoga. Returning to Huntington at the end of the war, he practiced medicine here until the outbreak of the Revolution. After the capture of Long Island he refused to take the oath of allegiance, and went into the Continental Army. After the war he returned and practiced his profession until his death in 1786. His son Nathaniel was long an hon- ored citizen of Huntington and died here in 1841, leaving lega- cies to the Huntington Academy and to the Presbyterian Church .- C. R. S.]
[+ Gen. Nathaniel Woodhull's ancestors were from North- amptonshire, England, where Richard was born, 1620, and the latter came to America in 1648 and settled on Long Island, and had children, Richard, Nathaniel add Deborah. Subsequently the family is found at Setauket, Smithtown and in this town. Gen. Nathaniel Woodhull had experience as an officer in the French War, and was very prominent as a patriot at the open- ing of the Revolution. His untimely death cast a shadow over the cause he so nobly advocated. When taken prisoner he was commanded to say, "God save the King." His response was, "God save us all" : and this so enraged his captors that they inflicted mortal wounds upon him with their swords .-- C. R. S.]
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arrived in Queens Co. that the militia had dispersed, and Gen. Woodhull had fallen into the hands of the enemy. We then proceeded with all dispatch to this town, as the only place where we could have any prospect of making an effectual stand, as the enemy were in full possession of the western parts of Queens Co., as far as Jamaica, and the Disaffected from the east are gone in to them. We have ordered the militia of Suffolk to rendezvous here and written to Col. Mulford of E. Hamton to come up and take command, and have borrowed £320 from the Treasurer of Q. Co.
Aug. 31 .- Our express not being able to cross to Sand's Point, has returned. A. no. of militia of this town are now under arms, but they complain their officers have left them. We have exerted ourselves to recover the people from the consternation into which they were thrown by the pre- cipitate retreat of Woodhull's party. A party of King's Co. horse have crossed the Sound from this place, leaving their horses to follow in the next boat. We stopped the horses and sent for the men back. We purpose after the party who were with Gen. Woodhull are rallied, to form the rest into companies. As to field officers we shall be at a loss as Col. Floyd is at Congress, Lt. Col. Potter is gone off Ist Major Smith resigned: 2d Major Brush is with us and begins to be in spirits .*
("O," p. 42, File No. 283.)
[* The Convention had, Aug. 24, ordered Gen. Nathaniel Woodhull to march without delay one-half the Western Regi- ment of Suffolk County into Queens County, to prevent the stock and provisions from falling into the enemy's hands. Gen. Woodhull and Col. Potter, of Huntington, both arrived in Ja- maica on the 25th of August, Col. Potter commanding about 100 men from Huntington. Major Josiah Smith had in the meantime proceeded further west with the rest of the Suffolk militia. Gen. Howe was off Sandy Hook with a disciplined force of 24,000 men. Washington collected 20,000 raw recruits under Generals Greene and Putnam, in New York City. Howe landed 10,000 men and 40 pieces of cannon at Brooklyn, Au-
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[THE MILITIA DISBAND.]
[1776, Aug. 30.]
Narrative of the proceedings of the officers and men of part of Ist Reg. of Suffolk Co., Aug 30 at Brookhaven and Smithtown, by Eben'r Dayton, Q. M.
Aug. 29 Maj. Jeffery Smith sent orders to Adjutant. Philip Roe, to order the 4 companies in Brookhaven to march immediately to Platt Carll's in Huntington. He did so, and there appeared a high spirit among the men.
By the middle of next day 3 companies arrived to Epe- netus Smith's, Smithtown, and the other, Capt. Mch. Roe's, was coming up. It was reported at Smith's that the Mayor was gone to Huntington to see Messrs. Hobart and Townsend, and desired the companies to wait till his return, which was not till dark, Meanwhile the militia were uneasy and eager to march to Hempstead Plains to- bring off the stock and make a stand in the woods E. of the Plains. At dusk the Major returned and called the officers into a room, and told them he thought. "it dan- gerous to march farther West, as their forces would not be sufficient to oppose the enemy and he very much gave up the Island ; they must fall in the enemy's hands, it would not be good policy to incense a cruel enemy by being taken in arms; if they remained quietly at home, they would fare better and that he should resign his commission Col. Potter was gone off and left him alone, and Maj. Brush had judged it unsafe to proceed aganst the enemy,
gust 22d, and moved up the Island in three divisions. A con- flict took place August 27th, at Flatbush. The American loss was 500 killed and wounded and 1, 100 prisoners. Washington retreated to New York City the 28th. Gen. Woodhull was mortally wounded by a ruffian near Jamaica, August 28th, and his men dispersed. Judge Hobart and James Townsend were sent to Woodhull's rescue, but hearing of his capture, moved on to Huntington and first informed the people of the disaster that had befallen the American forces at the west .- C. R. S.]
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