(brig?) armed vessel on shore, and took the two (sloops?) others into Norwalk. We landed on Long Island, and the militia turned out and attacked, but we got safely in. Ebenezer Jones commanded us -- see Mem. Book for 1846.

Novr 5th Isaac Quintard, of Greenwich, aged 84: "I was private in a company raised by Jabez Fitch of Horse =neck. These were state troops. Fitch was commissioned by Governor Trumbull as Captain; Joseph Hull of Derby (father of Commodore Hull) as Lieutenant; and Andrew Mead of Horseneck as Ensign. This company was raised in the beginning of 1781, to serve both on land and water.

sentinel fired. Our men then came out of the hold and fired, sweeping the deck of the Shuldham and preventing the crew from coming on deck, they being asleep below. It was then not far from daylight. Our men then cut away the netting which was nearly ten feet high and boarded. Mead was the foremost in boarding. He was wounded by the British Captain Roney of the Shuldham, a sloop or guard vessel, of twelve * [marg: * 10 guns, in another account.] guns. The Shuldham was then taken into Stamford where the Scotch Captain Roney died, of his wound inflicted by Mead, at my aunt's (the widow Hubbard) at Stamford. Roney said he didn't wish wish to recover, considering himself disgraced by the way he was taken. I nursed Andrew Mead who was taken to my father's house at Stamford.

When the fight between Brewster and Hoyt occurred, Brewster and Ryder,