I heard Major Huggeford (who gave me my name) say that Fade Donaldson was hanged for having killed Bron Barnett, and further that he gave Donaldson a fair court martial. Donaldson had several sons who tried to capture Major Huggeford during the war and threatened to kill him after his return from England here, so that for a while he carried arms for self defence. Captain Frink generally commanded and came up with the horse. He was a pretty harsh severe man; and took off cattle and prisoners from this neighborhood frequently. William Mosier was born near here in Weaver Street. John Bearmore (at Horton Reynolds) was 74. [page break] 90 984 father of Mansfield Bearmore and another Bearmore, both of whom live in Horseneck village. The name of Reynolds who killed Shube Merritt was Samuel, I think. [margin: Taylor] Phoebe Merritt, sister of Thomas and Shube (Merritt) and widow of Benjamin Lyon, lives with her son Daniel (Lyon) on Lyon's Point. When Shube Merritt lost his hand and the surgeon was dressing his wound, a young lad, an American soldier at that time in the service, expressed a desire to see a Refugee, and went where Shube was, but fainted at the sight. Shube exclaimed, "You are a d--d poor soldier if you faint away at the sight of a little British blood!" There was a regular bridge at Sherwoods over Byram river built long before the Revolutionary war. David Lyon (brother to Daniel who married Shube Merritt's sister) went below and joined Emmerick's corps. He piloted [page break] 985 93 a party up once who cut off the guard at Sherwood's Bridge. The Refugees for the most part came up in the night. It was night when they attacked Sherwood's Bridge generally.