62 968 59. [margin: PARIS] Nov 23d Nathaniel Hyatt, Esq. of New Castle, Pines Bridge Post Office: "Mr. Samuel Chadayne requested me to call and see you. The names of the men who captured and robbed the French Doctor near Pines Bridge, during the Revolutionary war were: Henry Weeks, James Tillett and James Totten. After stripping him they sat down and cut a pack of cards to decide who should kill him. The lot fell upon Totten but he refused to do the deed saying, "I am a boy only seventeen years old, and will not perform so bloody a task. Tillett then offered to take his place, and no oppo- -sition being made, he shot the Frenchman dead.

[margin: Henry Weeks, Jas. Tillett, and Jas. Totten.]

The Totten family who are rich and respectable are highly incensed at Bolton's account of this affair, and have long talked of prosecuting him.

The French general offered a reward of one thousand guineas for the capture of those concerned in this transaction. Just at the [page break] 969 65 [margin: PARIS] close of the Revolutionary war, my father Captain Abraham Hyatt went down to Morrisania with a party to take Tillett and surrounded the house in which he lived, but did not succeed.

I will write you a full account of this affair, and also communicate some interesting Revolutionary incidents together with a biographical sketch of my father's life," &c.

Novr 23. Isaac Davis of Norseneck Society, Connecticut, aged 79. "Some time towards the end of the war, Captain Frink at the head of about three hundred Refu- -gees came up the road leading from Norseneck Meeting House by Zaccheus Woods to Round hill, Pecks land and Bedford. They halted at a spot called Bleap board Ridge

I will write you a full account of this affair, and also communicate some interesting Revolutionary incidents together with a biographical sketch of my father's life," &c. Novr 23. Isaac Davis of Norseneck Society, Connecticut, aged 79. "Some time towards the end of the war, Captain Frink at the head of about three hundred Refu- -gees came up the road leading from Norseneck Meeting House by Zaccheus Woods to Round hill, Pecks land and Bedford. They halted at a spot called Bleap board Ridge