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Novr. 23. Isaac Davis of Horseneck Society, Connecticut, aged 79: "Some time towards the end of the war, Captain Frink at the head of about three hundred Refu- -gees came up the road leading from Horseneck Meeting House by Zaccheus Meads to Round hill, Pecks land and Bedford. They halted at a spot called Clapboard Ridge
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where they collected all the horses, cattle, sheep and hogs of the vicinity and drove them down to Morrisania. At Clapboard ridge they had a skirmish with the guard or militia and drove them off. I saw this myself. It must have occurred in July or any rate during the summer season. About six weeks before this happened, a party of about ten Refugees came up to Clapboard ridge where they took off Gideon Close and Captain Sylvanus Mead of the militia with one horse. At both these times the Refugees were all footmen. Not a gun was fired when Mead and Close were cap- -tured. Once in July four Refugees came within a few rods of Fort Nonsense when they found a man ploughing in the field with two yoke of oxen. A wood intervened which screened them from observation at the fort. The Refugees took both man and oxen across the fields as far as Peck's land when they let the man go. I saw this.
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We were reaping wheat that day, and the Refugees crossed right through the field of stand- -ing grain. Peck's Land, is east of Byram river, and about two miles west of North Street, and about one and a half or two miles north of Horseneck Meeting House. I remember when Colonel Wells was taken at Horton Reynold's in North St. nobody was killed, and I know that Colonel Wells went off with one boot on and the other in his hand."
We were reaping wheat that day, and the Refugees crossed right through the field of stand- -ing grain. Peck's Land, is east of Byram river, and about two miles west of North Street, and about one and a half or two miles north of Horseneck Meeting House. I remember when Colonel Wells was taken at Horton Reynold's in North St. nobody was killed, and I know that Colonel Wells went off with one boot on and the other in his hand."