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.

When the alarm gun was fired the people fled from Horseneck three or four miles back, with their effects which they had hid in the woods and bushes.

There was no Major or Col. Hobby dur=ing the Revolution, but the one of that name who lived in Middle Patent. Of this fact I am certain. Major Hobby was a cousin of my husband.

Colonel Mead was afterwards a general, and his son a Colonel of the militia -- Colonel or Major Mead was clever, and a man of good judgment but not a very enterprising soldier. Once when he commanded at Horseneck the British made an attack, and he had a field piece always which he concealed. This fact, his hiding the field piece, always created a laugh at his expense. His military papers are all pro=bably in possession of his grandson Theodore who lives in a white house at the foot of Putnam Hill.

During great part of the war the public schools were discontinued, and children