Keep them away! - I'll have none of your things!" He then said to my father, "don't you remember the soldier that was shot through the body, and was all night in your house? I am he. Your wife, I think, saved me, and I feel towards her as though she was my mother." &c. He then showed the scar in his breast, and my father said, "Betsey, these must be your things," and she then recognized and took them. He said he had come 200 miles to restore
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them. He was, I think, a New Hampshire man, belonging to Sheldon's horse. When he first spoke my mother was fearful he was laying a trap for her. Shubal Reynolds told me that his brother….Reynolds informed him that he was once taken by Shube Merrit, and after his surrender Shubal Merritt told him to stand still, then retired back a few paces and said: "Now if my gun goes off you're a dead man, but if it misses you shall have quarter. Shube then pulled the trigger, the gun missed fire, and quarter was given. Reynolds after this declared if he ever met Shube he would kill him, peace or no peace. When Shube Merritt was entrapped at New Rochelle he ran to the head of the stairs, pistol cocked in hand, and pointing it at the whaleboatmen exclaimed: "The first man that steps upon these stairs, I'll
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blow him through, but if you'll give me quarter, I'll surrender." Reynolds answered - "I'll give you the same quarter you offered me. If my gun misses fire you shall go clear &c., but" &c. He fired, and Shube dropped dead upon the stairs. Reynolds' gun was loaded with a ball and three buck shot, and Reynolds was probably in the rear of his prisoner Those in front might have offered quarter, but Shubal Reynolds said no quarter was offered by anyone, as his brother told him.