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- From Jonothan Arnow, May 2, 2000:
Morgan Secord, the Secord family genealogist, had the Arnaud Bible. Morgan wrote an article around 1930 about Mary Secord Renoud (Arnaud, Arnow). Apparently she was arrested by General Howe's troops for stealing water from the well that was in back of the Pugsley house on North Street, in New Rochelle, New York during the Revolutionary War. It seems good old General Howe and his troops had depleted the water supply of all the local farms in the area, including Mary Renaud's well. She had a young family and needed water and walked down the hill and filled her buckets with what was necessary to keep them going. Finally the guards stopped her and put her under arrest. She told General Howe that her well had run dry and that she and her husband, father-in-law and two brothers were Tory sympathizers and that they had all gone to White Plains before this incident, and sworn allegiance to the King in 1775. General Howe let her go and posted an armed guard on Mary Renoud's well for the duration of the British stay in the area.
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1742 - 1818 (75 years)