[margin: 18215] [margin: Scarsdale see next page] 89. October 24th William Barker Captain Campbell and Lieutenant Paddock met in Wards house; when the former entered and ran each other through. Lieut. Paddock had just at that time, obtained a Lieutenantcy in the Continental army, and came down to the lines to recruit from the militia and others. One of the Haines family, a private in the Queen's Rangers was killed at the same time.

Kennicutt remained below until Arnold's treason, and then left West Chester and went above. He, as well as Captain John Hunter, and Capt. Gilbert Dean, married a daughter of Colonel Samuel Drake. Hunter and Kennicutt were each spies for both sides - false spies for the British and real for the Americans. Arnold knew

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[margin: 18215] [margin: B] all the spies, and when he went over, those of them within the British lines fled precipitately the moment they heard of his defection, and it was understood generally, they had a narrow escape. Kennicutt was once taken up in Scars dale near my father's as a British spy, by a party of Sheldon's and carried above where he soon made his escape. He was at this time supposed by every horseman to be a British spy, and his capture and subsequent escape, were afterwards shown to have been pre-concerted with the view of impressing the Royalists and the public at large with the opinion that the American authorities considered him as strongly attached to the King and as being in the habit of rendering the tories important services. After leaving leaving West Chester in 1780, he lived a free life and it was said sometimes