Shube was struck with Dole's courage and expressed his admiration of such bravery at the gates of death.- Shube ended the colloquy by saying he would leave it to Dole's sense of honor and propriety whether he should go below and surrender when he got well or not. Dole at last consented. When well he went below, and was afterwards promoted to a lieutenancy. Captain Fowler was wounded in the neck at Horseneck, and complained to his friends who raised him from the ground that his cravat choked him. They took it off. The ball fell out of his neck
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and he instantly bled to death. When Tom Ferris and two others took Delancy's horse they were so hotly pursued that Tom abandoned his friends, and meeting a quaker on horseback in East Chester made him dismount and took his horse; but the horse put to speed, soon tired, and jump- -ing off Ferris ran into a swamp and af- -terwards got to Throg's Neck, where his mother lived.
October 28th Lieut. John Brown of Sheldon's, was a Jersey man, and his daughter was after- -wards married to General Zebulon Pike, killed in [Canada]. Brown afterwards settled in Kentucky. He was once in com- -mand of a party of Sheldon's and pursued up King Street, by a superior party, I believe, of Regulars. Brown's horses were jaded and one man over taken by the enemy had just surrendered, when Brown, putting himself at the head of a few men of tried courage, faced about and charged.