202 566 [margin: Genl Wm. Greene - a soubriquet Col Benjn Greene, of Somers, a real Colonel.] October 23d Samuel Chadeayne "Early in the Revolutionary war, that is, about 1778 or 1779, one Thomas Gibson lived in Yorktown, and joined the British. He afterwards came up, a Refugee, skulking, &c. John Drake, a militia Lieut. came to Gibson's house and commenced pulling it down, whipping Gibson's son, a boy, to make him tell where his father then was. Gibson was on a hill in the woods, near enough to hear, and creeping cautiously along fired and killed a sentry posted at the house. He retired unmolested, Drake being afraid to pursue, &c.

Sometime, within a year afterwards, Thomas Gibson and some others at the house of Barton Underhill near Gibson's house, about a mile and a half west of the Chadeayne farm, in company with some Refugees, when a small company of horse from Bedford (militia) approached Underhill's house. They were espied by 77.87.

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567 205 88. the Refugees, and all but Gibson escaped, by the west door. He ran out of a door to the north which led to a garden surrounded by a picket fence which cost him so much time that before he could scale it, he was taken prisoner and tied. Some half an hour or more afterwards while he was leaning against the back of the house an Irishman named William Dalton came up and accosted Gibson. "Gibson, you have threatened my life." Gibson replied, "No, I have not." Whereupon Dalton fired and killed him with his musket.