When soon afterward the volunteers were charged and driven from the wall, Archelaus Buel, his nearest comrade, called upon Peck to escape. But waiting, as was supposed, for another shot, the intrepid old man was surrounded by the enemy, and the exasperated soldiers refusing quarter, contended fiercely with each other who should give him the greatest number of mortal wounds. Another of the most distinguished among the Litchfield volunteers, was the late Oliver Wolcott, then a youth of sev-enteen, who as a public servant was destined to occupy high positions in after life. While yet a young man, he was se-lected by General Washington to succeed Hamilton as secre-tary of the treasury; and some years later became Governor of Connecticut. "In April, 1777," says his grandson George Gibbs, the editor of his papers, "his studies were broken in upon by a call to a less peaceful scene than the groves of Yale. He had gone to Litchfield on a visit to his mother, his father being absent attending Congress, when the news arrived that a large body of the British under Tryon had landed and marched to Dan-bury to destroy the Continental stores. Awakened at mid-night by the summons to repair to the rendezvous of the mil-itia, he armed himself, and his mother furnishing his knap-sack, with provisions and a blanket, hastened his departure and dismissed him with the charge to 'conduct like a good soldier.'" Wolcott took part in the skirmish at Wilton, and fought on the same day under Lamb, along with the Litchfield volun-teers at Compo where his file leader was shot. The Hawley family at Reading-on-the-ridge furnished at