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,

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Mead Mead contd. a Refugee lives near the Toll gate and must remember much. J.M. Putnam encountered most danger after arriving at the bottom of the hill. Here he leaped his horse over the north side of the fence, and passing in rear of a farm house (?) rode furiously towards through a swampy piece of ground over- =grown with bushes, his fine horse leaping fences and obstacles until safe, J.M.

Saml. Lyon. Nov. 1. Samuel Lyon, of Rye, Hogpen ridge Road: Tarleton was a large heavy man. I saw him with Bearmore. Bearmore wanted Tarleton to give him some of the dragoons to strike an American post near Byram but Tarleton refused.

Here he leaped his horse over the north side of the fence, and passing in rear of a farm house (?) rode furiously towards through a swampy piece of ground over- =grown with bushes, his fine horse leaping fences and obstacles until safe, J.M. Saml. Lyon. Nov. 1. Samuel Lyon, of Rye, Hogpen ridge Road: Tarleton was a large heavy man. I saw him with Bearmore. Bearmore wanted Tarleton to give him some of the dragoons to strike an American post near Byram but Tarleton refused.