November 18th John Paulding. My mother, [inter: an] aged woman who always lived in this vicinity says she has always heard that Major Andre was taken South of the brook by the three, who were posted at the line on the west side of the road -- that he watered his horse at the brook, and Williams being on guard and Van Wart and Paulding playing cards, and that he was searched and examined on the east side of the road, &c.

Nov. 29th Samuel Ferris. of Stanwich, Conn, aged 76 on the 10th of last August: "I think Bron Barrett was an old countryman, and had no friends or relatives in these parts, and was no connection of the Barretts of West Chester County. If he had been I should have known it. It was in 1782, I think, that he was hanged. It might have been

in 1781. F. Donaldson must have been hanged shortly afterwards. My father lived at Middle Patent, and was so harassed by blackrate and by Skinners and cowboys that he came to Stanwich where he had some property, and staid two years till after peace. I think, upon reflection, he must have moved from Middle Patent to Stanwich in the Spring of 1782, and returned in the Spring of 1784. Brom. Barrett was hanged while we lived in Stanwich

-- Towards the close of the war (in 1782 probably) the Refugees of Morrisania consisting of about 30 or 40 foot came up to Stanwich where they were met by a force of 20 American militia from the neighbourhood, and a skirmish ensued, in which a private of the Refugees named Silas Chapman (an uncle of mine) was killed (or rather mortally wounded -- dying two days after). The Refugees fearing an