About one mile above the bridge the Americans threw up a breastwork across the road [just by my house] a little south of it) and prepared to stop themarch. General Wooster. I had his horse wounded. He then mounted his aid's horse, and was shot by a [page break] [margin: See orig. p. 112.] and fell off his horse.

At Compo our people got all around them. Colonel Lamb, I think, attacked on the west side of the hill. Arnold was on the east or north.

Mother was the only one of the [Danbury?] Congregation that escaped. She lives at Ridgefield [Stamford?]. The Americans extended beyond the British flanks fifty or sixty rods east and west [margin: Ridgefield?] of the main road. After the battle at Ridgefield the Americans marched around the British east and west and got in their rear, marching in the night and threw up the entrenchments above mentioned which were flanked on both sides by a thick wood which came close to the road.

It was understood that the tories informed [Tarleton?] of the breastworks, &c, and they then crossed the river. Ezekiel Wilson, of Ridgefield, piloted the British from that place. [margin: Tryon?]

114.

After the battle at Ridgefield the Americans marched around the British east and west and got in their rear, marching in the night and threw up the entrenchments above mentioned which were flanked on both sides by a thick wood which came close to the road. It was understood that the tories informed [Tarleton?] of the breastworks, &c, and they then crossed the river. Ezekiel Wilson, of Ridgefield, piloted the British from that place. [margin: Tryon?] 114.