Frim the Historic Sodus Point site.
One of the men who was at the battle on the American side was Ammi Ellsworth who lived between the point and the village of Sodus It is said that he was one of a pair of identical twins with his brother Levi.
"Ammi, on occasion, partook of the cup that cheers and does inebriate, and when he reached a certain stage of exhuberance, was wont to turn to a bystander and say, 'Am I Ammi, or am I not Ammi? If I am not Ammi, then who in hell am I?' "
Another was Isaac Davidson, who was the miller at Dr. William Lummis' grist mill some two miles west of Sodus Point near the mouth of Salmon Creek. That evening, Davidson had been locked in the mill by mistake. We do not know how he got out, but got to the Point in time for the battle.
The great wrought iron hinges and superb handle of the mill is now on a resident of Sodus' home and the author wonders what it was like for Ike to get out that night.
To Get Out and Then Go Get Shot At. Oh Boy. --Brock-Perry
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