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Mr. Jonathan Bates, of Darian, who said: "I am 74, and remember well the taking of the Middlesex congregation. Capt.
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William Frost and his party landed at night - marched 4 or 5 ^2 or 3 miles and secreted them- -selves in a wood a short distance from the church. When the hour of service approached they sent forward a man who knew personally all of the congregation, and who from the top of a high tree reconnoitered all who went to church. They thus learned that Capt. Gershom Richards, Josiah Hoyt, Nathan Waring and most of those who were particu- -larly obnoxious to them were not present, and they then determined to defer the attack till the afternoon service. Captain Frost was from that neighborhood and most of the party under him. When the afternoon service had commenced, Frost and his party advanced from the wood, passed across some low ground to the upland about the church, and the route by which they advanced being covered with bushes and trees the refugees were not observed till they jumped the road fence. A moment afterwards they surrounded and captured the church. Mather was in the pulpit and Frost said to him: "Come down here, Old Mather
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I want to use you." Four or five of the congregation escaped by leaping from the window and running. Among these were two sons of Mr. Mather; and others escaped by hiding behind the women's clothes. One man was wounded in the leg in crossing the fence. They tied the congregation two and two, together and marched them to the islands at the mouth of the Five Mile River - (the place called Scotch Cove, from the circumstance that a Scotch vessel was once wrecked there).