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Ezra Lockwood and Mrs. Hunt.
Nov. 22d. & 23d. Ezra Lockwood and Mrs. Hunt: Major Ebenezer Lockwood, our father was a member of the committee of safety and was informed of Tarleton's intended attack a day or two before it took place by the famous Kennicott of the spies. - Kennicott came up from West Chester on foot to Poundridge for the purpose of putting them on their guard. Sheldon's officers were quartered at Major Lockwood's
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Ezra Lockwood and Mrs. Hunt contd.
and he had got all ready to move the day (night?) before, but Sheldon dissuaded them saying they could never move in such weather. It rained very hard all night. Major Lockwood's family were dressed and did not go to bed, but were ready to move away next morning. The horses were kept saddled and bridled in order in the road between the Meeting House and Major Lockwood's house where H[unt]. now lives. A vidette [X] was posted about three quarters of a mile or a mile from Poundridge Meeting house where the road to Poundridge diverges from the B[edford] and Salem road and where there is now a red house. This vidette came in at speed reported a large body of cavalry advancing from the direction of B[edford] by the B[edford]
[X] Sheldon had just ordered or was about to order the horses to be turned into the fields to pasture when the vidette came in.