. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. while, contemporaneous with Willcocks,Alexander Hamilton was on Washingtons Staff, andAaron Burr on Putnams. James Monroe, after-wards President of the United States, was also onStirlings Staff, at the time of \\illcocks to this appointment he had an interestingexperience as prisoner, of which he left record, en-dorsed in his own hand upon a bill (now in thepossession of his great-granddaughter, M
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. while, contemporaneous with Willcocks,Alexander Hamilton was on Washingtons Staff, andAaron Burr on Putnams. James Monroe, after-wards President of the United States, was also onStirlings Staff, at the time of \\illcocks to this appointment he had an interestingexperience as prisoner, of which he left record, en-dorsed in his own hand upon a bill (now in thepossession of his great-granddaughter, Miss Pauline Ashfield Bunker of New York City) of ^ fora pair of pocket pistols, saddle and bridle, as fol-lows : N. B. The above Pistols, with Horse, Hat,Saddle and Bridle, now taken from me by the Brit-ish Light horse, when they made me prisoner in76. I escaped by jumping off the horse alongsideof two Horsemen, who were conducting me as aSpy to General Kniphausen, who was then quarteredat Col. Van Homes in Middle Brook, N. was favored by the Darkness of the Stirling he was detailed to hang a spy atPeekskiil, an interesting account of which, written. WILLIAM WILLCOCKS by himself a year before his death, is given here-with. It was at Peekskiil up the North River Ihung a man as a Spy by order of Eord Stirling towhom I was then an Aid-de-Camp. The businesswas this : Stirling had certain intelligence that therewere Spies following the army on its march up theRiver. He therefore sent out parties to apprehendthem. Accordingly two men were brought in whilstwe were at Dinner. They had on Spatterdashes,a tiling entirely unused by our people, and theywere taken in the English neighborhood, theirfamilies, by their own account, living back in theCountry. On these circumstances, he desired meto hang them on the nearest tree. That tree wasdirectlv across the street. I sent for Graham the UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 109 Drum Major to hang them. He did so as to one,w
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