quarters. &c. and then advanced (in whole or in part) to the widow Griffen's where a party was posted and summoned them to surrender, offering quarter if no resistance &c was made, but threat- -ened extermination &c if otherwise &c. The officer commanding agreed to surrender and most of the men surrendered but two black men refused and fired into the troops. They were pursued through the fields and killed. Mrs Green lived on the same road near where it joins the Somers road a little east of Pinesbridge. The planks at Pinesbridge were taken up every night and replaced in the morning The troops under Green were probably from Rhode Island.
The officer commanding agreed to surrender and most of the men surrendered but two black men refused and fired into the troops. They were pursued through the fields and killed. Mrs Green lived on the same road near where it joins the Somers road a little east of Pinesbridge. The planks at Pinesbridge were taken up every night and replaced in the morning The troops under Green were probably from Rhode Island.