After leaving the house and travelling some distance, we went on talking aloud, thinking of no danger, when first I knew I was clinched by the prisoner by upside, and thrown to the ground, and then with his knee on my breast he stabbed me in the side with what I afterwards found to be a large jack knife, nine or ten inches long. It happened not to take effect as he had intended ; it was a slanting stab, went through my clothes, and grazed my skin. Being pretty spry and stout at thajt time, I raised with him and threw him from me, and he made his escape. The other prisoner knocked my comrade down, and cleared himself also ; I lost my hat in this affray. Next morning I went to the place and found my hat and the knife I was stabbed with ; the knife being partly shut with blood on. I suppose when lie stabbed me, the knife shut and cut him, and he let it fall. Those prisoners had their hands securely tied behind them when we left the house, and it was my supposition the knife was given to them at tire house where we stopped, to cut themselves loose unperceived by us, the night being very dark."

The following probably has reference to the foregoing:

Phiilipsburgh, July 7 1 h , 1777- Rec'd of Mr. John Dean the sum of three pounds ten shillings in full for a gun which he borrowed of me and lost by an insurrection of prisoners which he attempted to carry to Peekskill. Peter Garrison.