Gershom Richards, Josiah Hoyt, Nathan Waring and most of those who were particularly obnoxious to them, were not present, and they then determined to defer the attack till the afternoon service. Captain Frost was from that neighborhood and most of the party under him. When the afternoon service had commenced, Frost and his party advanced from the wood, passed across some low ground to the upland about the church, and the route by which they advanced being covered with bushes and trees the refugees were not observed till they jumped the road fence. A moment afterwards they surrounded and captured the church. Mather was in the pulpit and Frost said to him: "Come down here, old Mather

[page break] [margin: PAGE] I want to use you." Four or five of the congregation escaped by leaping from the window and running. Among these were two sons of Dr. Mather, and others escaped by hiding behind the women's clothes. One man was wounded in the leg in crossing the fence. They tied the congregation two and two, together and marched them to the islands at the mouth of Five Mile River - (the place called Scotch Cove, from the circumstance that a Scotch vessel was once wrecked there). Here the vessels did not meet them at the appointed time, & the neighboring militia collected under Major Davenport and attacked them. They were now in danger. They had gained the inner island, and the Americans were afraid of killing their friends. Nevertheless they kept up a cautious but constant fire upon the island and on the vessels. The large vessel could not approach near them on account of the shoal water and rocks &c, and the wind prevented the galley (armed sloop) for a long time. - Meanwhile Davenports party continued to