These they proceeded to destroy with all possible dispatch, as they were now annoyed, and fired upon by small parties of the pursuing militia which con-tinued to harass them in flank or rear, during the residue of the retreat. At Lambert House, nine miles from Ridgefield, they took the road to Saugatuck. While traversing the eastern part of Wilton, as they were engaged in destroying some provisions belonging to the public, they were attacked by Colonel Hunt-ington. This officer early in the morning had put himself at the head of the troops he had commanded at Danbury and having collected what he could of Wooster's scattered forces marched for the King's army. Some volunteers and militia from Ridgefield and elsewhere joined him as he passed along, and after a forced march of several hours, he found himself at about eleven o'clock with five hundred followers, in sight of the enemy. In the skirmish that ensued the Americans had none killed and only five or six wounded. The British loss has never been ascertained. As the adverse armies moved along, hunger led the men to the farm houses. The matrons who remained at home, con-consulted policy and humanity alike. They placed before these visitors the best food at their command. Some of the housewives baked all day long, supplying with bread first the British soldiers and then the American. At a large farm house in Wilton, a party of the royal officers invaded with suc-cess, the milk room, where they robbed the pans of their cream, performing the manipulations of the skimmer quite as adroitly as they practiced assaults with the sword.