246 590 111. 101 [margin: PARIS] November 5. Thaddeus Bell, of Darien, aged 89. "I was taken off from Middlesex Church by Captain Frost and confined in the Provost (New Jail) for four or five months. Frost landed on the Point on the east side of the Scotch Cove, and so marched up through the woods, lying concealed in a swamp about fifty rods from the church till afternoon, when they captured and took us through the woods down to an island where the two vessels that landed them were waiting near at hand. The island or two islands lie south of the point which is east a little of Scotch Cove. The Cove is half a mile wide measuring from the point to Long Neck which lies on the west side of it. The inner island consists of mostly of a clump of rocks covered at high tide by the water ex- -cept the rocks themselves. The outer

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249 591 112 102 [margin: LOUIES] outer island was the larger consisting of meadows, and dry at all times. The islands are south of the Point, and the outer south of the inner island. They took us immediately to the outer island - part of the Refugees remaining at the inner island to defend the party. They took the horses close to the outer island. Our folks assembled in the afternoon under Major Davenport when the sun was about two hours high and attacked the Refugees who at one time left the inner island in consequence of the briskness of the attack, but soon returned rallying the men and manning the Isle of Rocks again. They fired upon Davenport from behind the rocks and sand bank and kept him off. Davenport thought it best to wait for some reinforcements on the way, and soon after the two armed vessels, a brig and a sloop got far enough up to fire when their guns commanded