The ice was too weak for the horsemen I believe. Tim Knapp when about to be hung exclaimed - 'Must I be hung for stealing one horse when so many horses have been taken by Delancey's Refugees?' His brother Tom was killed by Titus Mead. The hickory tree where the sentinel was killed is on the west side of the salt creek, and there is a large oak tree near which the schoolhouse stood." [I examined the ground &c. this day
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with Mr. David Miller.] "Capt. Samuel Lockwood of East Greenwich was a very good soldier and so was Captain Ebenezer Jones. At the time Colonel Mead was chased, and the guard furnished him by General Waterbury cut to pieces and taken as above I lived near Mahanus river, and saw the whole affair." [When Colonel Hatfield and Major Huggeford were taken January 18th 1780 Keeler, Lockwood, and Mead, were ingo- -rant of there being a large stable a short way off where the greater part of the enemy's best cavalry horses were kept constantly saddled and bridled. These were mounted by the Refugees when they pursued. &c.]
At the time Colonel Mead was chased, and the guard furnished him by General Waterbury cut to pieces and taken as above I lived near Mahanus river, and saw the whole affair." [When Colonel Hatfield and Major Huggeford were taken January 18th 1780 Keeler, Lockwood, and Mead, were ingo- -rant of there being a large stable a short way off where the greater part of the enemy's best cavalry horses were kept constantly saddled and bridled. These were mounted by the Refugees when they pursued. &c.]