The Refugee party set fire to the house by kindling straw in different places which was extinguished by some children when they left. Putnam's headquarters (and the Ameri- =can head quarters generally) at Horseneck were at the Tracy House, then, called, from its owner the Knapp House. Brom Barrett, I think, was pla- =ced as sentinel over the British officer, Captain Frink, who bribed him and escaped. Br. B. was said to have confirmed this, and to

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Madam Mead contd. have told how many guineas he got. He then went below and joined Delancey. Long afterwards he came up to get his wife, was pursued, and wandered several days in the woods, came one night to my fathers who at first refused him admittance, but consented on his saying he should perish if not taken in, and on his complying with my fathers request to hand his gun in through the window, breech foremost. He said to my father who directed him to a bed up stairs: "I hope you will not betray me." He slept late, and my father rose early, and, deeming it his duty, informed the authorities who took him (Barrett). His execution without judge or jury was generally censured. He was a foreigner -- and, I believe, an Irishman. Mrs Bearmore, mother of Abr. Bear- =more, lives four miles northerly from Pecks- =kill, with her son Mead Bearmore, near Mr. Fox's, and not far from the Turn- =pike road. The widow of Jabez Hobby, a Refugee,