It is chiefly due to Slater or Slaughter, an officer (or Sergeant) under him who addressed the men telling them what to do, and exhorting them to be firm and they would make a successful defence &c. Kipp made successive discharges upon them for an hour and an half. The negro who served [with] in the party was a slave (or servant) of Captain Sackett.

Major Huggeford was born just over the line in Connecticut, and was a cousin of the Greens. He lived after peace

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in King Street and died there. He befriended Thomas in New York when he was a prisoner there, and Thomas, after peace, protected him.

It was Jotham Purdy's first excursion after receiving his commision of Captain, and his long white feather made him conspicuous in the middle of the moonless night.

Shube Merritt, with a very few followers, was once surprised in a barn which was surrounded by a large number and summoned to surrender but he refused. They then set fire to the barn. Shube sprung from the barn, and rushing through the flames, cut his way through, ran some distance till out of breath, and then threw himself down by the side of a fence where he supposed him- =self safe, but he was followed and taken.

Shube Merritt, with a very few followers, was once surprised in a barn which was surrounded by a large number and summoned to surrender but he refused. They then set fire to the barn. Shube sprung from the barn, and rushing through the flames, cut his way through, ran some distance till out of breath, and then threw himself down by the side of a fence where he supposed him- =self safe, but he was followed and taken.