Here the Refugees took shelter from the fire of Davenport's men. The tree, next day, was found perforated with bullets. The armed vessel not being able to reach the island in con- -sequence of a calm, a galley, armed with swivels, rode into the channel which separates the Fish Islands, and maintain- -ed a constant fire upon the Americans pre- -venting them from crossing the Cove. Daven- -port's men were afraid to fire on the Refugees
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upon the outer island for fear of hurting their friends. The Refugees and prisoners were taken on board the galley, and the horses were swum off to the armed ves- -sels and hoisted on board. Some of the prisoners were paroled and the rest sent to the Provost. Captain Richards and Nathan Warring never returned. Hoyt returned in a very weak and sickly condition."
(?) See account at 2/50 and 3/67. - On the 7th of June, 1779, a party from Long Island landed near Gorham's harbor and surprised a small guard of ten or twelve men at Gorham's mills, in Stam- -ford, which was at the time engaged in playing cards by moonlight in the farm yard of one Pennoyer, sitting on some logs by the mill dam. The Refugees who landed advanced on the east side of Long Neck, and concealing themselves behind a fence reached the guard unperceived, and,
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<left margin> So in origl. see p. 37. <left margin>