Ezra Lockwood informs me that when Tarleton's horse pursued Sheldon's at Poundridge, on 2d. July 1779, a British dragoon got near one Hoyt of Sheldon's and was very vociferous, cursing Hoyt and calling on him as a damned rebel to surren- -der &c, where upon Hoyt, turning in his saddle, fetched a back stroke which passed thro' his pursuer's mouth cutting his face nearly in two parts from ear to ear, and putting an effectual end to his cries and execrations! J.M.M]
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Ezra Lockwood and Mrs. Hunt cont'd.
King of Ridgefield was a sergeant in Sheldon's at the time. The road branches to Canaan and Stamford about three quarters of a mile from Poundridge Meeting House. One of Tarleton's dragoons was shot by a militia man in the retreat. Major Leavensworth with a body of one hundred continental troops was stationed about a mile from Pound ridge on the lower road where the wide stone road wall now is. He prepared to cut off Tarleton's retreat by crossing with the regulars and militia to the upper road when the British retreated. They had just set fire to Major Lockwood's [house] and ordered Joseph Lockwood's [house] to be burnt; but word coming of the gathering of militia and Leaven- -worth's manoeuvres, they suddenly retreated, taking with them all Major Lockwood's cattle. They returned as they had advanced by the upper road to B[edford] burning Crawford's house near which they mistook their road. They had enquired of Crawford