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

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250 592 113. 103 [margin: PARIS] the bar between the island and the main, and no further attack could be made. Captain Frost was originally a Danbury man but married at Darien where he had relatives settled, before he married. He returned after the war on a visit, but left in haste hearing they were going to tar and feather him. He was a shoemaker. Joseph Hoyt, the Refugee who fought with Captain Hoyt, was son of Colonel Joseph Hoyt of Stamford, a Colonel in the Revolutionary war, and a Captain in the old French war. Captain Charles Thomas was said to have been from New Haven, and a hard, rough, man. I saw Brom. Barrett hanged at Titus's Bridge upon an apple tree on the side hill. He had been a cow boy and placed in custody of a guard, but Fade Donaldson and others overpower

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