only one dollar! They demanded more. Father said that was all he had &c. A gentleman now spoke: "How d'e do, Mr. Banks?" "I don't know who you are," said father, much frightened and trembling like a leaf. "What! do'nt you know an old neighbor?" "No," said my father, "I do'nt recollect you." "I am Colonel Holmes (?)" replied the stranger. My father then reasoned with and shamed Colonel Holmes for allowing an old acquaintance to be robbed. He replied "That is the usage of war!" Just before this I heard them say, "Give up your money, or you are a dead man!" I ran into the room in my night dress, and knocked up the muzzle of a gun pointed at my fathers breast They took off all our bed clothes and most of our other clothes which we never got again. They enquired

for my brothers and took one of them a prisoner. Then they enquired for the other brothers. I told them the others had gone to Bedford for a force to take them. They then left my fathers in a hurry and retreated. A few plunderers remained behind to take off what remained of our clothes My brother Samuel (a Lieutenant) was concealed between two beds and suffocated almost. He at last got his gun, went out and fired at them. This alarmed them, and an officer came back, struck the plunderers with the flat of his sword and made them give up the plunder They took off all our cattle but when my brother fired at them they abandoned the cattle. They then took the road towards Stanwich. This occurred in the last of the Revolutionary war.