He engaged the advanced party returning from above with cattle, &c. Hubbell then came down, also returning from above, and marching in rear of the advance guard for the east. He instantly took post on the American right behind a stone wall which ran north and south, and so raked the Americans killing two, and wounding several of the Americans. If Howe had posted his party on the west side of the road leading to the

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597 261 118 108 Point (where the Refugees were going) it was generally thought afterwards that he would probably have turned the cattle. Howe was a good officer, and was overpowered by numbers. The Refugees were most numerous. The spot where this happened is about three quarters of a mile east of Roton river.

The British landed once at Raymonds Point in 1781, on the east side of Five Mile River and collected cattle &c. They got the cattle on board, but while they were getting up the sever anchor and getting under sail, the Americans had collected and fired from the shore killing eight of the enemy. I was told of this by an English = man while I was in prison at New York. This English man was with the Refugees in voluntarily having come to [Loyds Neck] to claim claim his vessel, just as they were sailing with her on a cruise.

Jesse Bell was Howe's Captain in the coast guard service. He was Captain of the

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