"What are you doing here Ferris? How dare you come here?" Ferris then asked if they could not send somebody down to see if those chaps were still there. Burling answered, yes, he would send to bor- -row a scoup. He did so, but Ferris couldn't remain where he was but followed this boy, and presently met several men who knew and were talking about his adventure. They told him he had killed a man and
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advised him to be off, pointing out to him several men at a distance on the ridge said, "Look yonder" - Ferris answered, "I can out run them." He told them "I have pro- -bably killed the man, for I heard him scream dreadfully." He lost all the cattle he had taken, but secured the cow and oxen hid in the bushes, and drove them off to Round Hill. Tim Knapp left him just before he shot the man and he refused afterwards to let Tim share in his profits. The cattle of the lower party were either purchased by the Cowboys, or driven off by them on account of the owners who were friendly to the Royal cause and traded with the enemy.
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At one time during the Revo- -lutionary war, a party of Moylan's horse was pursued by a superior number of British. At a school house on a knoll about fifteen rods north east of Bryam river, and about two and a half miles south of Sam. Smith's, the horse of a private, an Irishman, stumbled and fell. The Irishman got up, threw down his pistol and surrendered, but the British dragoons, as they came up, commenced cutting at him. He then snatched hold of his pistol again and exclaimed: "If any of you cut at me again I'll kill him!" An officer happened to come up then who said: "Save that brave fellow." Quarter was then given and he was consigned to the care of the Yager horse (who retired in a house, with the main body of their party).