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. Honum escaped. Benjamin Close, my mothers cousin was along and was wounded in the arms and head &c with a sword
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and shot through the body, but recovered. He was from Horseneck. Honum's parents were scotch people. His mother kept a school. When Captain Fowler was killed at Horse- -neck the sergeant who commanded the American guard was pursued in the fields north of the road and killed. I saw his body His right hand was cut off, and a sword had been passed through his body. When Major Huggeford took Colonel wells at H. Reynolds's, the British advanced by the Sherwood bridge road for a mile or two and then by the fields. They had good guides from the country about here. Once while Colonel or Major Mead commanded at Horseneck, the British came up in force, and he hid his two field pieces in a field of wheat and retreated not having force enough to fight. He was much ridiculed for this. After peace, when a General, he found fault with one of his officers for being late upon parade. The General said, "Sir, I hope your early rising won't