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

being kept at home their education was for the most part neglected. My brother Peter Husted lives at Glenville, and he and Charles Smith of North [marg: x North Castle?] (who receives a pension for Revolutionary services) can tell many particulars of events which transpired in this neighbourhood!

Nov. 17th Peter Husted, of Glenville: I was born in 1772, about one mile from Horseneck church. When Tryon, came up to Horseneck in 1779, flanking parties advanced through the fields north and south of the main column which marched on the Post road. An American soldier was chased by a British dragoon, south or south east of the road. The soldier crossed one fence followed by the dragoon. He then ran