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Note: In the spring of 1775, he volunteered in West Chester County, New York, to combat the tories who were plundering Westchester and
surrounding counties. No British troops were stationed above New York
City until it was occupied by the enemy on September 5, 1776, having
word that British Col. Holmes was coming to destroy his regiment,
Chapman and forty five or fifty others volunteered to meet them. They
were surrounded by four times their number of torry horsemen but
formed a "hollow square" and at the point of bayonets and a great
slaughter of men and horses, killed Col. Holmes' horse and wounded
him. The enemy was repulsed by Chapman and his patriots without loss
of any man. He was in the march south to meet Cornwallis in Virginia,
and faught at Dobbs Ferry. Daniel and wife, Lucretia moved to Johnson
County, Illinois about 1818.
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