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.

[margin: Mansfield Bearmore and brother, of Stone Street, are now living on fields by Byram on N.Y. side. P. 51 of original.] Dec. 1st Samuel Lyon, of Weaver Street: "I am about 62 or 63 years old and was born here. I knew Major Huggeford well. He was a bold, enterprising soldier. He told me that when he took off Colonel Wells, his party forded the Byram about three fourths of a mile or more above Sherwood's Bridge and then stopped at the house of one Ebeneza Knapp which they surrounded, and called for Knapp, who made his appearance

P. 51 of original.] Dec. 1st Samuel Lyon, of Weaver Street: "I am about 62 or 63 years old and was born here. I knew Major Huggeford well. He was a bold, enterprising soldier. He told me that when he took off Colonel Wells, his party forded the Byram about three fourths of a mile or more above Sherwood's Bridge and then stopped at the house of one Ebeneza Knapp which they surrounded, and called for Knapp, who made his appearance