This deterred Carpenter who then got under the bed!) James Brundage fired from the window and killed a dragoon by Simcoe's side. Capt. Ogden with a party of horse was in pursuit of Reuben Lane one of Thomas's party who had run to a thicket. Thomas alarmed at the ferocity of Simcoe's party and the fate of Brundage, sprang from a window and escaped, though one hundred shots were fired at him. He ran to an adjoining wood, and there fell in with Ogden's party who fired at him. Ogden called to him to surrender to him, held his word over him and protected him, and claimed him as his prisoner. Thomas always recognized Ogden as his preserver, and assisted and protected him after peace.

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Richard Sackett of Bedford was captain of the company of levies in which Mosier was lieutenant. Sackett had stopped at Josiah Fowler's tavern in Pur = chase Street, near Merritts corner for breakfast, and was shaving when sur = prised by Kipp.

Octr. 2d Sackett had shaved one side of his face when taken. His company was encamped in the field opposite Merritts Corner along the first fence that runs parallel to Purchase Street and east of it. Mosier was with the company at breakfast and retreated through the fields easterly on a line par = allel to and near the road from Purchase Street to King Street. In a field beyond (that is, east of) General Thomas's in an open field) plain on a rising ground a little east of an old chestnut tree which stands in a small copse of locusts and South of the road for the Purchase Street to King Street, he was overtaken by Kipp.