48 960 [PARIS] hurt you?" The officer answered, "I didn't stop to hide the field pieces in a field of wheat!" The general was good natured and pardoned the allusion."

Nov 22d Isaac Holly, of West Greenwich, Connecticut, aged 84: "Three Refugees came up to Stanwich and played cards to decide who should kill June who lived east of Stanwich Meeting House. The lot fell upon a person who refused. Silas Chapman (one of the party) offered to commit the assassination if they would treat him. They consented, and he killed June in a corn field. Afterwards (the same day proba bly) a skirmish took place between three Refugees and three Americans at Stanwich near the Meeting House, on the road which [page break] 961 51 [PARIS] runs east and west. They advanced, fired upon each other, and then retreated alternately a number of times without either side gaining or losing ground. One or more more of the Americans were named Gelmer. At length one of the Refugees was killed, and being disheartened they then fled. The Refugee killed was the said Silas Chapman. This happened about the time that June was assassinated, and might have occurred on the same day, but I doubt it. It occurred however about the sametime. The late Benjamin Brush of Stanwich told me this day story and he saw the affair."

Chapman was not killed until sometime after June's death.

Sometime (I think about the middle of the war) four armed British vessels chased two American privateers from somewhere in the Sound to one of the Horseneck Harbours. The privateers ran for safety into a narrow harbour called the 'Old Chimney' among [page break] 52 962 [PARIS] high rocks. Old Chimney lies between two large rocks, and is not more than large enough to afford shelter to two vessels.