995 111 Once, when I lived with my grand- =mother in the upper part of King Street, I remember that a strong party of Hessians horse and foot passed up or down -- probably down. They were hungry, and asked for something to eat. My grand- =mother to please them said, "I have an only son below. Take this to him. She then gave them a cheese. They went off satisfied, but of course the cheese was never taken to my father, and my grandmother never supposed it would be."

Decr 1st Hannah Wilson, born Sherwood, at Sherwood's Bridge: "I was born about half a mile east of Sherwood's Bridge on the 21st of January 1767. Sherwood's Bridge of the Revolutionary [page break] 112 996 war was built about three years before I was born. Previously to this there was a bridge over the Byram. When the British party burnt my grand father's barn, they set fire to his house, but my grand mother threw water on and extinguished it as fast as they fired it. So the house escaped. Major Huggeford was always well spoken of before, during the war, and afterwards. Colonel Thomas was a hard man, and had not the reputation of being a very good soldier. Shube Merritt was a mischievous man and a plunderer. The Skinners who came from the north and south east were worse, if any thing, than the Cowboys."

When the British party burnt my grand father's barn, they set fire to his house, but my grand mother threw water on and extinguished it as fast as they fired it. So the house escaped. Major Huggeford was always well spoken of before, during the war, and afterwards. Colonel Thomas was a hard man, and had not the reputation of being a very good soldier. Shube Merritt was a mischievous man and a plunderer. The Skinners who came from the north and south east were worse, if any thing, than the Cowboys."