Jonathan Pawling Horton, Thomas Ferris & Jedediah Owens went down with a view of bringing them off. Owens who had charge of the ropes, lost them, & the Refugees on the neck found them. They then sent scouts in every direction to search the neck, & they searched so thoroughly for them, that they got up into the top of a large tree, to spend the night. They had been there but a short time, when 5 or 6 Refugees came under the same tree, talked about lying down. One of them said there was another tree, a little way off, that would be better to sleep under than that, & they started off. The 3 men then came down from the tree, making as little noise as possible. Horton had taken off his shoes to climb the tree, & set them under a bush, while he was putting them on a man came along & asked who they were, they said of his own party; he went immediately (as they expected) & alarmed the refugees. Horton & Owens made their escape. One of the Refugees pursued Ferris & he ran through a field of his Mothers, where before he left home, large stones had been dug up & left holes in the ground; he crooked about among these holes until the refugees plunged into one, then Ferris made his escape. Luther Kinnicut who was acting as spy for the Americans was on the neck at that time, & he, with one Robert Simmons