House before stopping, and he was at the very time on the look out, but Kipp who commanded the Refugees took his measures so well that the enemy's approach was not discovered till they (fired upon the barn) this lower party of fifteen or twenty, dis- -charged their carbines and rifles. The horses alarmed and wounded kicked, plunged, and broke from their fastening in great confusion, and, running north for home were (many of them) captured by the party which advanced and cut off our retreat when they heard the firing. We lost here about eighteen or twenty horses of our own, and likewise the fifteen we had taken at West Farms, and the two prisoners. Rivington's account is correct in the main, though, I think, the Refugees made more than seven prisoners. [ Fifteen of us were taken prisoners. - We were three months prisoners, that is, till the 28th of April.] When the alarm was first [margin: # See Original top of page 17.] [page break] given we were engaged in selling our spoils. Considering ourselves secure we had posted no sentinels. We ran on the instant for our horses but most of them had escaped, mine among the rest, and not being able to make any resistance I surrendered. I was then a boy of sixteen only and wore my brothers uniform and arms, he being a captain of the West Chester troop of horse, and at the time sick. Williams escaped by the fleet- -ness of his horse. Odell seized the first horse he could find, mounted and tried to escape but was overtaken by Kipp and Totten and pursued on the ice for half a mile or three quarters more. Kipp and Totten were ahead of their men, being probably having probably better mounted. They both struck at Odell, and Totten striking with a drill sword at last hit his cocked hat first and then the bridge of his nose, part of the hat being be- -tween, uncut, and intercepting the edge