on that occasion! -- Wells's officers and men were quartered in three farm houses not far apart which were all attacked at the same time; -- Horton Reynolds's and the two others.

Captain Frink was up here frequently during the latter years of the war. He was a brave man and always went ahead.

Charles Smith of North St-- several miles above here is one of the best men you could see for Revolutionary information

I am not a brother but a cousin of Mrs. Belcher and Mrs. Hobby."

Novr 17th Mrs. Cynthia Hobby, born Husted, in the year 1770, near Horse neck: "My father's name was Peter Husted. His horses and cattle were

all taken repeatedly during the last years of the war by the Refugees. Once they took our last cow. My mother begged for the cow in vain. This cow was taken by a Refugee named Seth Mead. Our cow we got back. Colonel DeLancey gave us a permit to keep a cow, and when stolen my father went several times to Morrisania to reclaim the cow which was restored honourably. It was only towards the end of the war that the people at Horseneck and that neighborhood were much plundered.

Towards the end of the war the Refugees who entertained a spite against a man named June living east of Stanwich and a party of them being up they played a game of cards to decide who should kill him. The lot fell upon Mills Hobby, but he being an old acquaintance another Refugee offered to take his place and shot June while hoeing corn. June dropped down dead in the fields.