34 476 Sept. 3. James A. Nolley will communicate with me. I have conversed with many old men who remembered the Danbury Expedition and have permission to use the facts &c. Arnold, after hieing the soldier walked deliberately off. Wooster at the time he fell was organizing his men to capture a field piece on the west side of the road which was planted on the ridge where he was shot by a musket ball fired from a barn on the east side of the road. Wooster's force not more than 200 -- Arnold's about 500. Sentinels so sound asleep that one prisoner walked out of the camp unmolested and challenged but once, when he gave some answer satisfactory to the guard.

Sept. 2. David [Frost]: General Wooster sitting in a [slanting?] position on his horse turning to his soldiers was shot in the back. x x x [margin: To origl. p. 126.]

A man named Starr, pursued by horsemen and left for dead, being cut about the head and [page break] 477 37 He fell upon his face and took the precaution to lie still. They thought him dead, but he afterwards crawled away and lived to a good old age. Joseph Platt Cook commanded the militia of Danbury. Major Starr belonged to the cavalry. There was a company of horse at Danbury. Tryon's headquarters were at Mr. Nehemiah Dibble's who was afterwards -- His brother was with Wooster, saw him fall and told me. The British advanced upon Arnold under cover of rocks and an orchard. The British occupied ground that was lower than the Americans. Wooster fell on a level piece of ground about two miles from Ridgefield. Arnold's foot was entangled in the stirrup, and [Coon?] wanted the credit of taking Arnold. -- See Hinman. Four men and a negro, under the influence of liquor, fired out of a house, and were killed, for plundering the stores could not be removed, the soldiers (American) had supplied themselves with rum at discretion, and drank too much.

The British occupied ground that was lower than the Americans. Wooster fell on a level piece of ground about two miles from Ridgefield. Arnold's foot was entangled in the stirrup, and [Coon?] wanted the credit of taking Arnold. -- See Hinman. Four men and a negro, under the influence of liquor, fired out of a house, and were killed, for plundering the stores could not be removed, the soldiers (American) had supplied themselves with rum at discretion, and drank too much.