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Calvin Mead or his son Marcus Mead of Round Hill on Quaker's Ridge -- Purchase Post Office.

Levi Mead of Quaker Ridge near Round Hill: " My father's family moved to Salem during the war and lived there about three years. Captain Theall was originally from Rye and belonged I believe to DeLancey's. He came up with a party and made an incursion into Connecticut as far as Stenwich where he collected a great number of cattle and horses &c. and then made for Morrisania, but was way= laid by Mosier with a party of levie's and militia, near my house, surprised and killed, some of his men made prisoners, and the cattle &c. all taken. Colonel Mead commanded a regiment of Connecticut militia and Major Fitch was his adjutant.

He came up with a party and made an incursion into Connecticut as far as Stenwich where he collected a great number of cattle and horses &c. and then made for Morrisania, but was way= laid by Mosier with a party of levie's and militia, near my house, surprised and killed, some of his men made prisoners, and the cattle &c. all taken. Colonel Mead commanded a regiment of Connecticut militia and Major Fitch was his adjutant.