They got the cattle on board, but while they were getting up the anchor and getting under sail, the Americans had collected and fired from the shore killing eight of the enemy. I was told of this by an English- -man while I was in prison at New York This Englishman was with the Refugees involun- -tarily having come to [Loyd's Neck] to claim claim his vessel, just as they were sailing with her on a cruise. Jesse Bell was Howe's captain in the Coast guard service. He was Captain of the
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Coast Guard in Stamford for many years. Bell or Howe must have generally commanded in their vicinity against the Refugees who landed. On the 27th of April, 1781, Captain Hubbell and others landed on the west side of Nor- -walk Harbour, near or at Raymond's or Belden's Neck, and marched up through the woods, to the house of one Saunders, a loyalist. Here they got the information they wanted. One of the parties had lived in Col. St. John's house, and knew a door that was not closed a night, so that they got into Col. St. Johns bedroom without any alarm, and took him, his son, and Mr. Isaacs, the father of Benjamin and Charles. DeLancey's horse once came within a mile of Stamford village. This was the furthest east they ever were, I believe. At the time of Dansbury expedition I belonged to Captain Jesse Bell's coast guards and marched to Ridgefield where on the of April we were posted north of Stebbin's