. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. the ferry road and lay Downunder a Shade for it was very warm and I drank somecold water while we lay under the board fence perhapsan hour ruminating on the terrors of the Day weheard the traping of men just over the knowl but wehad hardly time to think before they hove in sight andthe road was filled with red-coat regiments and againwe had hardly time for Surprise before we saw theywere prisoners and they were hurried over the ferryand threw the City and over the Hudson into Jerseywe concluded there was between two
. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. the ferry road and lay Downunder a Shade for it was very warm and I drank somecold water while we lay under the board fence perhapsan hour ruminating on the terrors of the Day weheard the traping of men just over the knowl but wehad hardly time to think before they hove in sight andthe road was filled with red-coat regiments and againwe had hardly time for Surprise before we saw theywere prisoners and they were hurried over the ferryand threw the City and over the Hudson into Jerseywe concluded there was between two and three hun-dred of them the firing ceased a little before sun downand a number of us go into a small boat and went backto our Regt. we learned soon that the flower of thearmy was killed and taken prisoner that Genl Lord ^ By the morning of the 28th the commander-in-chiefhad drawn to the Brooklyn lines all the troops that could bespared from other points . . something over nine thousandfive hundred men fit for duty. Henry P. Johnston, Campaign of 1776, p. 208. [ 244 ]. o l-HttJ QbJO■-) uQ <ui-i ai < o h< aihwai MW a;u < oo ^ o - ai t^ u <N < CO o < Q ^ CO o 2 O bO Ci] < CL, eua J5 U C c 60 C The de Forests in War Time Stirling and Sullavan and Several Brigadier gen- Samuel the Fifererals and between 9 and 10 thousand soldiers weretaken prisoner ^ the remaining of our arm^ on LongIsland retreated and pitched on the best and highestground Just back of Brookling and intrenched them-selves. Sudingly as well as they could the British armyleft flat Bush where the late and dreadful ilfated battlehad been lately fought and were planting themselvesalongside our troops in order Soon to give the finish-ing Stroke to Washingtons army. But shortly after I do not remember how manydays a most wonderful thunderstorm took place ^ itcommenced about i Oclock in the day the thunderand the lighting was dreadful the clouds were so lowthat they seemed to break over t
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