Ryder had not come up - that he had the advantage of him, and was on the point of capturing his boat, but when Ryder approached he found it necessary to surrender. Almost every man of the two hostile boats was wounded. Brewster was badly wounded in the breast. The boats lay side by side, and fought with their breaches of their muskets, with cutlasses &c Hoyt and Brewster fought hand to hand, clenched each other &c. They were both very athletic men. After the fight they went into Norwalk. The crews of Brewster's and Hoyt's boats were both very select & powerful men.

Ten, and sometimes twelve whale boats went out of Stamford. They did'nt all belong there, but made Stamford their Headquarters. Capt. Samuel Hawley, of Bridgeport was sometimes at Stamford with his boat - also the whale boat Capt. John Scranton of New London, &c.

At the close of the Revolutionary war the lines were about two miles west of Stamford, the American advanced posts, being then at Titus's Bridge on Mianus river and that vicinity - General Waterbury at the time commanding on the Continental side, and having his head quarters at Fort Nonsense in the north part of Stamford. It received that name, because the situation was considered a poor one to which an enemy would never come.

When Col. Hatfield was taken January 19. 1780, he staid at my father's while a prisoner He was taken off in a sleigh drawn by two powerful horses. It was very cold and good sleighing at the time. The house attacked was burnt down - Hatfield's men fired from the window.