The cowboys thereupon went imme- -diately to Morrisania and alarmed the Refugees. Captain Kipp instantly commenced a pursuit at the head of his dragoons and overtook the Skinners and the plundered cattle in the road which leads from Purdy's Lane to North Street about half a mile south from where John Gedney lived. The pursuer's charged. Honum escaped owing to the fleetness of his horse, but all the rest were killed without mercy except one who,
[X] Honum (Stoneham? elsewhere) see pa. 115 origl.
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although hacked almost to pieces received surgical aid in time, was treated, and recovered. Honeham (?) [X] was pursued by Capt. Kipp who could not come up with him, but got so near once that he made a clip and cut his horse's tail nearly off so that it hung only by a piece of skin. In this plight he returned to New Milford where he then lived, and where Colonel Budd also resided having gone above. Jack, a slave of Colonel Budd here doctored the horse, bolstering up the tail &c. so that it finally recovered and was as well as ever. Captain Abraham Gedney lived during the war on the James Tompkins farm on Chatterton Hill. He married my master's widow and I went to live with him. I used to see the French officers there. Gilly Hatfield was a man that would fight till he died. At some gathering after the peace he was attacked by one Ezekiel Fisher of Robin's Mills