Titus Mead stood by the door
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with his gun cocked and warned the assailants off. His son Harding Mead handed him four or five loaded pistols after he had fired. Knapp's death disheartened the Refugees and they made off. Thomas Knapp was brother to Tim.
<left margin> Solomon Peck ye 6th house on Peck's land road, aged 82 - Willis June, 4th house, same road - nephew of Thomas June. <left margin>
Novr. 21st Peter Husted - An ammunition wagon filled with plunder was taken by Putnam on the retreat of the British. The wagon stopped at the M[ead] house, and then the inhabitants had their property restored, consisting of clothing, bedding, and household articles. The soldier who killed the dragoon and captured his horse (near the road from Horseneck to the Landing) &c went down towards the Neck south of the M[ead] house where he remained till the British had retreated. Delancey gave protections to the Horse- -neck people allowing them to keep one cow
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but nothing more - no oxen or horses. Three Refugees went to Stanwich and played a game of cards to determine who should kill Thomas June. The lot fell to a man who had been his near neighbor and who refused to kill him. Silas Chap- -man also of Stanwich said he would do it. He accordingly took the others place and shot June in his corn field while he was at work. Schools were discontinued about Horseneck and some adjacent places during much of the war. An active man from the Pecks land road in Greenwich about two miles from Horseneck, named Andrew Honum or Honham, went below with a party and captured cattle and brought off plunder. They were pursued and overtaken some where (?) and nearly all killed.