Kipp and Holmes had their pistols, but it was said the men had not, which occasioned much censure towards the officers. They could not reach Mosiers men with their swords.

In 1781, when Hull attacked the Refugees settlements he was at West Chester and retreated to East Chester, being soon followed by the Refugees who overtook him in East Chester. A detachment of Parson's brigade took possession of the church with some pieces of cannon and fired upon the green Yagers who advanced (horse and foot) from Kingsbridge by the road

Samuel Oakley cont'd.

that comes out by Philemon Fowler's. The green Yagers when fired upon by Cannon refused to advance. A strong force was drawn up in East Chester Church yard behind the Church. The firing from the Church prevented the Refugees from advancing any further. The Refugees rallied very soon after the destruction of their settlement, and followed Hull from West Chester to East Chester village. -- One of DeLancey's men was up with a flag and talking of some prisoners they had recently made, said to Cornelius Odell Oakley: "We'll have you next." -- Oakley replied, "That may well be, for who none of us can tell what may happen." He soon after received informa tion from a spy (a cripple who was suf- -fered to go about among the Refugee posts and settlements unmolested and unsus -pected) that there was to be a great ball at a house near Fort No. 8. Oakley, [illegible] and a party went down on the