Nelson and Pew were then securely fastened arm to arm and the drovers with their cattle and prisoners prosecuted their journey without delay and arrived at New York in safety. The blow by which Pew was prostrated broke Nelson's musket. Soon after the above adventure, Ja- -red Palmer was taken prisoner (he probably belonged below) by a scouting party from Horseneck, and his captors gave him the choice either to remain a prisoner or to fight a very celebrated bruiser of their company who had invariably
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been victorious in all the pugilistic en- -counters in which he had been engaged, they, expressly, giving their words of honour to Palmer that he should go free in case he should overcome their champion. Palmer accepted the pugna- -cious alternative and a combat with fists ensued, the result of which was for a long time doubtful, but the cattle drover at last triumphed over his adversary and was set at liberty. Peter Angeoine, a Refugee, origin- -nally from Fox Meadow had his right (?) arm broken by a shot in the combat be- -tween Mosier and Capt. Kipp, but was so much excited upon the occasion that he brandished his sword in the other hand and hurraed for King George. He went to Nova Scotia and never returned. Nathaniel Adams who wounded the merry man in the shoulder with a musket ball at the Court House at White Plains was never taken. His resolution
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