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. Once when he commanded at Horseneck the British made an attack, and he had a field piece which he concealed. This fact, his hiding the field piece, always created a laugh at his expense. His military papers are all pro- -bably in possession of his grandson Theodore who lives in a white house at the foot of Putnam Hill. During great part of the war the public schools were discontinued, and children
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being kept at home their education was for the most part neglected. My brother Peter Husted lives at Glenville, and he and Charles Smith of North [X] (who receives a pension for Revolutionary services) can tell many particulars of events which transpired in this neighbourhood.
[X] North Castle?
His military papers are all pro- -bably in possession of his grandson Theodore who lives in a white house at the foot of Putnam Hill. During great part of the war the public schools were discontinued, and children - Hufeland Index Page 953 - being kept at home their education was for the most part neglected. My brother Peter Husted lives at Glenville, and he and Charles Smith of North [X] (who receives a pension for Revolutionary services) can tell many particulars of events which transpired in this neighbourhood. [X] North Castle?