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 Revolution…

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…

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 p…

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 throu…