254 594 115. 105 [margin: PARIS] Raymond Silleck was from Long Neck in Middlesex and went to the British, but returned, and after remaining about here, considering his youth, both overlooked his flight to the enemy, but some months afterwards he went to the British again. He was soon after with a party of Refugees that took a small vessel at the eastward, and put the Refugees Silleck and White Raymond on board the prize to take her into Long Island, having on board one Talcott who was part owner. Raymond and Silleck went below to see what was on board, &c. Talcott drew out the tiller and attempted to close the hatch way upon them. They resisted. He offered quarters and liberty if they would let the hatchway be closed till he got into Connecticut. They refused and in attempting to force their way up, Talcott knocked Raymond down and killed Silleck. Raymond afterwards went to Nova Scotia.

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257 595 116 106 [margin: PARIS] It was Gorham's Mills not Sillecks where the guard was surprised. A party landed and crept up behind a barn yard wall. The American guard of ten or twelve men were sitting down upon some logs - some playing cards, others not. The Refugees fired and killed two. Zaccheus Hoyt and William Trancher. They landed in the west side of Scotch Cove, having crossed over in whale boats. One John Mills was one of the Refugees, but, I think, was not the Commander. The Refugees landed at a spot near where the house of Mills' father stood. The Americans next day found this spot from the marks in the sand, and Captain Nathaniel Slosson the Commander of the Coast guard told old Mills he would give him that day to remove the house, and if he did not in that time he, Slosson, would do it for him.