Report from New York Gazette and the Weekly Mercury, May 10, 1779

Last Saturday Night a Party of Col. Buskirk’s Regiment, under the command of Capt. Ryerson, and a Party of Refugees, went to a place called Closter, about 25 miles on the West Side of the North-River, where they were attacked by a Body of Rebels, 5 of which they killed, 2 of them by the Name of Demaree, and brought off five Prisoners without any loss.