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<left margin> Genl. Wm. Greene - a soubriquet - Col. Benjn. Green of Somers, a real Colonel. <left margin>
October 23d Samuel Chadeayne "Early in the Revolutionary war, that is, about 1778 or 1779, one Thomas Gibson lived in Yorktown, and joined the British He afterwards came up, a Refugee, skulk- -ing, &c. John Drake, a militia Lieut. came to Gibson's house and commenced pulling it down, whipping Gibson's son, a boy, to make him tell where his father then was. Gibson was on a hill in the woods, near enough to hear, and creeping cautiously along fired and killed a sentry posted at the house. He retired unmolested, Drake being afraid to pur- -sue, &c. Sometime, within a year afterwards, Thomas Gibson and some others at the house of Bartow Underhill near Gibson's house, about a mile and a half west of the Chadeayne farm, in company with some Refugees, when a small company of horse from Bedford (militia) approached Underhill's house. They were *spied* by
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the Refugees, and all but Gibson escaped, by the west door. He ran out of a door to the north which led to a garden sur- -rounded by a picket fence which cost him so much time that before he could scale it, he was taken prisoner and tied. Some half an hour or more afterwards while he was leaning against the back gable end of the house an Irishman named William Dalton came up and accosted Gib- -son: "Gibson, you have threated my life." Gibson replied, "No, I have not." Whereupon Dalton fired and killed him with his musket. May 14, 1781, Delancey's main party crossed the fields and bye-roads to Blenis's ford where the foot mounted behind the horse and passed the river.