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Friday, July 21, 2006
Patriots Saved Pelham's Cattle from the British Early in the
Revolutionary War
Throughout the Revolutionary War Pelham was subject to the depradations
of British foraging parties. The very day of the Battle of Long Island
(also known as the Battle of Brooklyn) on August 27, 1776, one such
foraging party moved up the Long Island Sound to the Town of Pelham.
On August 28, 1776, Colonel Joseph Drake wrote a letter from New Rochelle
describing what happened the previous day in Pelham. In it he described a
British ship that landed troops on City Island (then part of the Town of
Pelham) to plunder cattle and poultry. He wrote:
"The enemy lay yesterday and all last night by Hart Island; this morning
they removed a little to the southward of Minefords (City) Island, where
they at present lay. They have not been able to plunder much. They got
from Minefords Island four horned cattle and some poultry, which is all we
have been able to learn they have plundered. I immediately sent Captain
Hunt, with about fifty men from New Rochelle who, with the help of a part
of Colonel Graham's Regiment drove off all the cattle from the Island, to
the amount of thirty odd head."
Source: Hufeland, Otto, Westchester County During the American Revolution
1775 ~ 1783, p. 108 (Privately Printed 1926) (citing Force, American
Archives, 5th Series).
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