The next night after this Simmons advised them to make their escape which they did, getting nothing this time. -- Bashaw after being taken across the Sound became blind in consequence of having been swum in a state of heat. A man named [Coxe] Coxe at or near Oyster Bay owned Bashaw, who was afterwards kept as a stud. David Hall of Long Island had charge of the horse Bashaw, and afterwards said that he secured him and went in the house at night. In ten minutes went

out again and he was gone.

When Ferris was returning through Horseneck after the escape of Bashaw, he found the place in the possession of DeLancey's Refugees who had come up that day or the day before. His quickness furnished an expedient for passing the Sentinel. Riding up: "I want to see Major H. - -," said Ferris "where shall I find him?" The soldier informed him and allowed him to pass, but he took care not to be seen by any more of the Refugees and escaped safely.

Tom. Ferris and Tim. Knapp went below and secured a drove of cattle at West and East Chester from the Tories, but on returning at night near where John Tradwell (below where Mr. Bates (?)) lived they encountered a party of ten or twelve cowboys who had been above and were now on their way back also with a drove of cattle.

The hostile parties were ignorant of each other's strength. It was dark and the cattle became intermixed and the drivers were mutually afraid of each other. Each party sprang over the fence opposite each other. Ferris and Knapp fired several times, then ran round a [^Knoll] for cover, loaded and fired again. The Refugees all this time couldn't see them. After awhile all was still.