Ferris covered his nose with a silk handkerchief to keep him from squealing, mounted, and ran him about fifteen miles to a spot where whale boats lay which had engaged to meet him. He then plunged Bashaw into the water and the boats towed him across the Sound near Norwalk.

In going across they landed on one of the islands, and led him across it. This horse (Bashaw) became blind in consequence of plunging into the water in a heated state.*

Black rate was enforced in Middle Patent. Dr Isaac Smith's once took the bedding from my father's house for this rate. This was James Smith's father.

When James Miller was killed I saw two of the Dragoons in red (regulars I suppose) who came down

* The owner of Bashaw after the war, recovered his value from the captors. His groom afterwards said that he was taken off within ten minutes after being fed and secured for the night. It was from somewhere about Oyster Bay that he was taken.

Dr Isaac Smith's once took the bedding from my father's house for this rate. This was James Smith's father. When James Miller was killed I saw two of the Dragoons in red (regulars I suppose) who came down * The owner of Bashaw after the war, recovered his value from the captors. His groom afterwards said that he was taken off within ten minutes after being fed and secured for the night. It was from somewhere about Oyster Bay that he was taken.