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. The rocks east of the road are thirty or forty, and those on the west from 15 to 20 feet high. Once, in the latter part of the war, Huggeford told me that he was going up to Round Hill and North Street, at the head of a strong party of Refugees intending to sweep off all the cattle of the Country; and was fearful of this pass. He had reason to be, It was guarded by forty or fifty militia who lay upon the top on their faces, and when the Refugees advanced near enough rose up and poured upon them a sheet of fire. They instantly faced to the right about and retreated. It was cold and the ground frozen. The advance of the Refugees was expected and the sentry in advance put his ear to the ground and heard the approach of the enemy a mile off. Two miles north of Sherwood's Bridge [page break] 1017 151 [margin: PARIS] a branch of the Byram comes in from the East. When the guard at Sherwood's Bridge was cut off by Bearmore or Emmerich (?) the enemy crossed Jabez Sherwood's log bridge and guided by Davis Peck made a circuit and so gained the White Plains and Horseneak road half a mile east of Sherwood's Bridge where there is now a pair of bars.