November 11th Among those who drove cattle below to the enemy was a farmer of Greenwich, Connecticut, named Jabez Husted, who on one occasion had collected a drove with which he was going below in the night. Passing through Rye, on the Post Road, he was informed that Captain John Thomas with a com- -pany of thirty or forty militia had taken a position on the road to intercept par- -ties who droves going down. Husted was so situated that he could not return, and knowing whom he was to encounter resorted to a successful stratagem. When he approached Thomas's guard he drove his cattle furiously onward, making a great noise and uttering bloody threats: "Here boys! here the rascals, are! -- Kill them every one! -- No quarter! --

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137. Push on! &c. When the Captain heard this he supposed the Refugees were coming on in force and retreated with his company to Beaver Swamp, in North Street near John Height's old place. For this conduct Captain John Thomas was tried, broken, and had his command taken away. Mary Sniffen with a party of friends from near Round Hill or thereabouts, forming a considerable company, was killed at Rye Neck in 1779 (?). The party escorting her were driving cattle below and stopped a moment at Stoney brook to water when they were fired upon by some militia under John Maynard of Purchase Street near Merritt's corner (that is, below) who were lying in ambush. Her friends escaped but she was thrown from her horse and afterwards killed by a bayonet