Fancher got up and wandered about deranged with his head cut so that his brains could be seen to work. He was taken to Gilbert

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Palmer's house. Doctors Belcher and Adams were sent for who dressed his wounds, and soon after he recovered. I saw him afterwards in the service. He was wounded in the right wrist. James Miller was at Colonel Tho- -mas's house at the time that officer was taken and escaped by concealing himself in a hogshead of feathers. In Lieutenant Bouton's affair above, his men had plundered and their knap- -sacks were filled with poultry. An Irishman took out some of the contents and exclaimed as he went along: "I've come honestly by them! - I've I - I did'nt steal them! No." He took knapsacks and all. When he turned turned out again my aunt said to him: "I think you should be exempt, my lad, from service after being lame." He answered: "If I am clear by the

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laws of man, I am not by the laws of God."

Thomas Ferris, Wright Carpenter and Tim Knapp formed a plan to take off two very fine imported blood horses, viz: a gelding (Goliah) and a mare which were kept concealed on Millett's neck (?) below West Farms. They were watched with great care as it had been given out that they would be taken off by persons from above to retaliate for some predatory excursions of the DeLancey's Refugees. It was some time before they could discover where they were kept. At length they found the place and soon after the horses were turned loose, in a large meadow that was surrounded with briers and hazel bushes among which they con- -cealed themselves, for several persons [margin: Capture of DeLancey's horses]