They then proceeded to strip him when the women of the house exclaimed: "For God's sake don't leave the dead man naked here!" They then desisted, and the next day a party came up from below and took him to West Chester where they buried him. This party was of Delancy's Refugees. Shubael lost his hand in consequence of his carbine going off while he was using the ram rod. He always considered that he was deliberately murdered. The man who killed him was named Reynolds. My brother, Thomas, died at St. Catharine's, about ten years ago. [margin: 85]

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995 111 [margin: 86] Once, when I lived with my grand- -mother in the upper part of King Street, I remember that a strong party of Hessian horse and foot passed up or down - probably down. They were hungry, and asked for something to eat. My grand- -mother to please them said, "I have an only son below. Take this to him. She then gave them a cheese. They went off satisfied, but of course the cheese was never taken to my father, and my grand mother never supposed it would be."

Decr. 1st Hannah Nelson, born Sherwood, at Sherwood's Bridge: "I was born about half a mile east of Sherwood's Bridge on the 21st of January 1767. Sherwood's Bridge of the Revolutionary [margin: 86]

My grand- -mother to please them said, "I have an only son below. Take this to him. She then gave them a cheese. They went off satisfied, but of course the cheese was never taken to my father, and my grand mother never supposed it would be." Decr. 1st Hannah Nelson, born Sherwood, at Sherwood's Bridge: "I was born about half a mile east of Sherwood's Bridge on the 21st of January 1767. Sherwood's Bridge of the Revolutionary [margin: 86]