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
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for being a tory. Fisher made the assault with his horsewhip while Gilly's cousin Lawyer Richard Hatfield was present, and gave him assurance of protection and support presenting him with a cane in order to place him upon an equality with Fisher who was armed with a horsewhip. Gilly then attacked Fisher in his turn and drove him off the ground."
At some gathering after the peace he was attacked by one Ezekiel Fisher of Robin's Mills [X] Honum? - Hufeland Index Page 902 - for being a tory. Fisher made the assault with his horsewhip while Gilly's cousin Lawyer Richard Hatfield was present, and gave him assurance of protection and support presenting him with a cane in order to place him upon an equality with Fisher who was armed with a horsewhip. Gilly then attacked Fisher in his turn and drove him off the ground."