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Novr 17th Mrs. Cynthia Hobby, born Husted, in the year 1770, near Horse- -neck: "My father's name was Peter Husted. His horses and cattle were
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all taken repeatedly during the last years of the war by the Refugees. Once they took our last cow. My mother begged for the cow in vain. This cow was taken by a Refugee named Seth Mead. Our cow we got back. Colonel Delancey gave us a permit to keep a cow, and when stolen my father went several times to Morrisania to reclaim the cow which was restored honourably. It was only towards the end of the war that the people at Horseneck and that neighborhood were much plundered. Towards the end of the war the Refugees who entertained a spite against a man named June living east of Stanwich and a party of them being up they played a game of cards to decide who should kill him. The lot fell upon Mills Hobby, but he being an old acquaintance another Refugee offered to take his place and shot June while hoeing corn. June dropped down dead in the field.
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When the alarm gun was fired the people fled from Horseneck three or four miles back with their effects which they hid in the woods and bushes. There was no Major or Col. Hobby dur- -ing the Revolution, but the one of that name who lived in Middle Patent. Of this fact I am certain. Major Hobby was a cousin of my husband. Colonel Mead was afterwards a general, and his son a Colonel of the militia - Colonel or Major Mead was clever, and a man of good judgement but not a very enterprising soldier.