Another ancestor, Othneil Preston was wounded in the Battle of Bennington on the 16th of Aug. 1777 and taken to Eusopus jail. His wife, Anna Love Preston, a "woman of great courage", took a "4-year old colt and went to the prison and put him (Othneil) on the colt's back. After she had started. she looked back and the prison was on fire."   He lived four weeks after reaching home and was buried at White Creek, NY. 
 

Contributed by Carol Robinson McLean, 
12 Derwent Waters, Claremont, 
Tasmania 7011, Australia.