Frink offered quarter if he would return unarmed and lay down our arms. Jones answered; "If you will wheel your horse about in five minutes [page break] 290 457 very well, otherwise I will instantly order my men to fire. He immediately left us.

Stoney Point. - When prisoners were cutting away the abbatis, the British said: "Come on, ye d-d rebels!" &c. Carmen answered: "Don't be in a hurry! We'll be with you presently!" I had this from one of the men engaged.

Hessians were very kind to us while impri- -soned - Allowed us to go out with them and buy our prisoners provisions. When it was the Hessians turn to guard us, I used to go to market with a Hessian sergeant. When entrusted to buy bread &c. by such as had money, the Hessian soldiers were found very honest and faithful, but the British soldiers generally helped themselves to a glass of spirits from out of the money entrusted to them!

Sept. 10. Daniel Dickman, of Westport: "British crossed two and a half or three miles above the old bridge - a little above Soptor plain, and near which is a factory now. About one mile above the bridge the Americans threw up a breast work across the woods just by my house [margin: ?] a little south of it) and prepared to stop the march of General Wooster. I had his horse wounded. [margin: Wooster.] He then mounted his aids horse, and was shot by a

Daniel Dickman, of Westport: "British crossed two and a half or three miles above the old bridge - a little above Soptor plain, and near which is a factory now. About one mile above the bridge the Americans threw up a breast work across the woods just by my house [margin: ?] a little south of it) and prepared to stop the march of General Wooster. I had his horse wounded. [margin: Wooster.] He then mounted his aids horse, and was shot by a