461 7 119. (See page 115 of original.) [margin: PAPERS] Sept. 9th Capt. Henry Chichester was a whale boat Captain along with Samuel Lockwood, Ebenezer Jones, Isaac Jones, Valentine Ryder, & Foragers - 200 foot - 40 horse - Donaldson would go - One man escaped named Lockwood, brother of Samuel - We landed on Myers Neck about 35 in number - Captain Frink commanded the horse, about forty - He stood and formed a hollow square - Frink ordered us to surrender and promised quarter - Ebenezer Jones then ordered them to go, "or I will order my men to fire!"

Four boats - one commanded by David Hawley of Bridgeport, one by Isaac Jones - one by Ebenezer Jones and one by Samuel Lockwood - 25 marines killed and wounded - I was in the second boat - He followed them to Long Island - took several. If.

[margin: children congregation?] When the Middlesex Cong[n] was taken [Davenport] had 250 militia - A ten gun ship fired on us - Went for I [illegible] with 25 whale boat men on horseback - I was with them. - N. Mather a staunch whig. - When Judge Jones was taken we had to travel above 30 miles across to Stoney brook harbour. - We had not boats for all, and Jones was sent over while some of us waited till next night. - British heard of this. - A party of Light Dragoons surprised us, and we were about to embark - Six of us taken - British came on so hot that our folks pushed off.