146 1014 [margin: PARIS] [margin: 1850.] October 15th Went with Horace C to White Plains - Called on Mr. Putney, Mr. E. Horton, Mr. Decker, Mr. John Horton, Mr. Griffen, Jr and then to Washington Tompkins, of Kensico. (?)

October 15th Daniel Rowell, Senior, of White Plains: "Upon one occasion, during the Revolutionary war, Bearmore, at the head of a party of horse and foot made an excursion into Connecticut as far as the house of Benjamin Mead, situate on the Southern extremity of Quaker Ridge, at the north west corner formed by the intersection of the Quaker Ridge and Sherwood's Bridge, or Byram road, and the road from White Plains to Round Hill, and being about a mile easterly from [page break] 1015 149 [margin: PARIS] King street. Obadiah Mead, the only son of Benjamin Mead, was at a barn on his father's farm on the east side of the Byram road, and about one hundred yards south of the house. The troops pushed for the barn to capture those who were there. As they approached Obadiah fled easterly across the fields pursued by the Refugees who after calling repeatedly upon him to stop and surrender, fired, by Bearmore's orders, and shot him dead at a spot about a quarter of a mile east of the barn. The poor youth, who was only about 15 years old was brought home to his mother a corpse. The untimely fate of young Mead was much lamented, and among others by Bearmore himself, who said that he (Mead) was mistaken for another person whom the Refugees were extremely desirous of taking prisoner. About two miles and a half north of Sherwood's Bridge, the Byram River Road [page break] 150 1016 [margin: PARIS] ascends a hill where it passes an opening through a ledge of uncommonly high rocks nearly perpendicular and quite inaccessible.