Totten and Tillet were two of them. The Frenchman went down upon his knees and begged. They cast lots who should kill and the person on whom it should fall was to have his gold watch over and above an equal share of the plunder, such as horse, money &c. The lot fell on Tillett (?) who performed the murder by striking him on the head with the butt of his pistol being afraid of causing an alarm by firing. Tillett struck the cock into the Frenchman's head. Fancher foolishly threw away his gun in the swamp, and was then overtaken and badly cut in the head. While Dole was laying sick of his wounds at the house of Joseph Wilson, the house was plundered by a party of Skinners among which was my cousin Wright Carpenter and Isaac Webbers.
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After he recovered Dole called both of them to account and compelled resti- -tution. Some of Moylan's discharged soldiers were very great plunderers and bad men. Among them was Mitchel Burke [X], Bob Forrest and Bob Thurston. Burke and others once came to my father in law's house seized, and attempted to gouge his eye out by seizing a lock of his hair, &c. My father in law was a Friend and named Aaron Furman. He was a blacksmith. He had a daughter a resolute woman who took hold of her father's sledge hammer kept for safety in the house, and said, "If you take hold of my father again, I'll lay you sprawling." Burke then desisted but cursed her, and used offensive language &c. Lieuts. Jayne and Doyle were partners in business at Lansingburgh