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

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(who had been a refugee Lieut., but had taken disgust & come back to the Americans) endeavoured to secrete these men. They built them up in a very wide stone wall near the water side, where they remained 2 or 3 days. Kinnicut & Simmons layed sedge along the sides of the wall & fed them privately through the holes in the wall. At length Ferris said there was a place at the upper end of the neck that was fordable at low tide, Kinnicut & Simmons then let them out of the wall & they went as privately as possible there, took off their clothes, bundled them up, put them on their heads, & forded the creek over to Pelham, where they were obliged to conceal themselves 2 or 3 days before they entirely escaped.

ATTACK ON COL. GREEN

Col. Green (a stout athletic Southerner) was stationed with his regiment a little below Pinesbridge. Col. Delancy with his regiment of Tory refugees, accompanied by British troops marched up with a view of surprising Green which they did, he not being sufficiently on his guard. Major Flagg of Green's regiment, had retired; hearing the noise he got up & sitting on the bedside discharged a pistol through the window; those without fired in through the window & killed Major Flagg who fell back on the bed.