We went down to attack the fort being in number about thirty or sixty. Fade Donaldson was a rough ugly old fellow and had three sons with him in the whale boat service. Major Eyres had been a Major in the army, and was afterwards a whaleboat captain. I was under him three or four months. He was a very brave man with very little conduct, and was killed by Captn. Marks. He surrendered and delivered his
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musket to Marks who took it and killed him with it after he surrendered. Major Hubbell [X] was from somewhere near Bridgeport, a very clever man who afterwards became a Colonel. He commanded the party that killed three men by the school house near here, about two miles west of Darien church. They took no prisoner then. We took Joseph Smith prisoner who was wounded. He (Joseph Smith) was from New Canaan. We were fifty or sixty in number, enough to have taken Hubbell prisoner. Hubbell after- -wards said Lieut. Howe missed his figure when he hailed them. We were then under the command of Lieut. Nathan Howe of Middlesex of the coast guard. Captain Frost who took off the Mid- -dlesex congregation was a shoemaker from Middlesex.
[X] From Monroe, formerly from of Huntington. Mr. Hawley says - "a gentlemanly old man."
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I was with those that pursued them to Scotch Cove. We might have taken them all, but for Major Davenport who said: "It won't do to attack them now - They'll kill half of you." Davenport's courage was doubted much. The British vessels of war couldn't come up to the Islands at first. One Talcott was part owner of a vessel taken by the aforesaid Refugees who put W.