The weekly Anglo-African., 1860-02-04

of the first team, in order to block up the I
lane. The drivers and the escort fed.
We took forty horses and ten wagons, all
of which were sent to Morristown. We
had brush with a company of Hessians
on the same occasion, and dogged them in
their retreat.
"About complaining this year my mas
ter was called on to go North. Master
Berger ordered me to 60 with Capt. Young
love for nine months. Our regiment, un-
der Col. Seely, met at Cornelius Slack's,
on Succasunny Plains, about the last of
May. We marched through Sussex, Gosh
en-, New Windsor, to Newburg. At ESQ
pus we fell in with Domonie Hardenburg,
whom | knew at Somerset. We went to
West Point first. There a chain was
fastened to large rock, and stretched
across the river to prevent vessels from
going up Thence we went by Schenec-
tady to what is now Utica We were
here three days, and found three children
massacred by the Indians. We had been
brought here to repel he'Indians, who had
massacred the whites. A massacre had
been made by the Indians at Cherry VAL
ley, through which we passed on our way
to Utica, and also at Fort Montgomery.
We pursued the Indians through the will
derness as far as Buffalo. We had five
feld-pieees. Gen. Sullivan commanded.
We reached Buffalo about corn-husking
time. 1t was the week after New Years
before we began our return march. We
got home about the middle of January.
AT West Point we halted, and whilst
standing sentry one cold night, the snow
being deep, party of Hessians and High
landers, who had crossed the river on the
ice, came on us by surprise. After hailing
the first one without getting an answer, l
fired on him, and he fell. The whole guard
came up, and before the skirmish was over,
we killed sixteen of the enemy. 1t was
moonlight The light horse soon rallied,
and took seventy Of the enemy prisoners.
The Highlanders were dressed in blue
plaid trowsers, and had broadswords. AS
soon as fired, they returned my fire, and
l fled till the guard came to my relief. /
received bullet upon the bottom of my
gaiter, which drove the button and ball in
to my right leg, just above the outer ankle
bone. The ball and button were both cut
out of the leg by DIR. Parrot, the surgeon
of the regiment, the next morning. The
fight was about 10 o'clock at night. At
the same time / received wound in the
tendon of the heel, just opposite the ankle,
which seemed to be a cut, and divided the
large tendon almost through. Both wounds
and scars, remarks the Pension Agent, are
yet plainly visible and tangible. l was
two weeks and five days confined at West
Point by this wound. DIR. Parrott attend
ed me all this time. The company and
regiment remained there all this time, and
then set out for home. [ hobbled along,
and kept up with them on the march.
Capt. Younglove was wounded in the thigh
the same night with myself This was my
last service in the army
"After the war was ended l applied and
demanded my freedom of Berger, but he
sold me to Peter Ten Eyck, for one hu,s-
dred and ten pounds, a SlaUe for hfe' Ten
Eyck sold me to the Rev. John Duryea
for G92 los. / lived with him for two
and half years, and then he sold me to
Peter Sutphen for the same money |
lived with him two years as a slave, then
lived with the mistress one year. Iagreed
to pay her, from the proceeds of my labor,
992 los. paid that sum, and bought my
freedom, after the additional servitude of
twenty years under different masters"
This whole case is singular. The poor
fellow walked up into life slave, was
bought by coward to go to battle in his
place, served the country in several cam
paigns, was in several battles, was wound
ed, and came home with an honorable dis
charge. He thought he deserved his free
dom, and demanded it, but the patriotic
Berger found his fighting property was in
creased in value, and sold him to a Dutch
minister, and he to Sutphen. From the
time he entered the army, serving parts of
several years as soldier, until he fell into
the hands of Mrs. Sutphen, was a period
of twenty years. He was bought as a
substitute for g92 1Os and at the end of
twenty years he was compelled to buy his
own blood and bones for 492a los. If
am informed correctly, there is one ale
waiting circumstance, which is this, he re-
ceived pension from Government.