969 ⁶⁵ [margin: PARIS] close of the Revolutionary war, my father Captain Abraham Hyatt went down to Morrisania with a party to take Tillett and surrounded the house in which he lived, but did not succeed. I will write you a full account of this affair, and also communicate some interesting Revolutionary incidents together with a biographical sketch of my father's life, &c.

Nov! 23. Isaac Davis of Horseneck Society, Connecticut, aged 73. "Some time towards the end of the war, Captain Frink at the head of about three hundred Refugees came up the road leading from Horseneck Meeting House by Zaccheus Meads to Round hill, Pecks Land and Bedford. They halted at a spot called Clapboard Ridge [page break] 66 970 [margin: PARIS] where they collected all the horses, cattle, sheep and hogs of the vicinity and drove them down to Morrisania. At Clapboard ridge they had a skirmish with the guard or militia and drove them off. I saw this myself. It must have occurred in July or at any rate during the summer season. About six weeks before this happened, a party of about ten Refugees came up to Clapboard ridge where they took off Gideon Close and Captain Sylvanus Mead of the militia with one horse! At both these times the Refugees were all footmen. Not a gun was fired when Mead and Close were captured.

Once in July four Refugees came within a few rods of Fort Nonsense when they found a man ploughing in the field with two yoke of oxen! A wood intervened which screened them from observation at the fort. The Refugees took both man and oxen across the fields as far as Peck's Land when they let the man go. I saw this. [page break] 971 ⁶⁹ [margin: PARIS] We were reaping wheat that day, and the Refugees crossed right through the field of standing grain.