They took no cattle this time, but captured a number of prisoners. The Refugees had as many as thirty or forty horsemen The militia pursued too closely for them to take off any cattle. They killed Solomon Wardell at this time at Owens's on the Bedford and New Castle road. His brother Eliakim Wardell was taken prisoner at the same time. Three of Moylan's discharged soldiers, Cornelius Ogden, John Strong and Adam Schell once proposed to me
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to go on to Chappequa and lay in wait for a drove of cattle going below. We watched and patrolled all night, and was right among the Refugees without knowing it. Not finding any cattle and being hungry, I refused to stay another night. - Soon after I passed a house and barn where a party of Refugees were concealed who were about firing upon me, but one Jonathan Worden, one of them, knew me and prevented them saying, "if we fire we shall alarm the others." I passed accordingly without knowing my danger, till Worden, afterwards, told Cornelius Ogden (when a prisoner below) who told me. After this the Refugees immediately surrounded and took my three companions. Schell was killed on the spot. Strong they took two or three miles, and,
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having a spite against him, hanged him. Ogden was taken below and exchanged. The drove, probably went down safely. Black rate was enforced in this neighbourhood. William Mosier the celebrated Lieutenant was my brother in law, having married my half sister. He was a mason, and died but a few years ago in Dutchess County where his sons now live. He was shaving when word came that the Refugee horse was coming. The Refugee Officers while attacking said: "Now you are half shaved, Mosier, you had better give up." - "I will not." - "You had better or you're a gone man." &c. &c.
William Mosier the celebrated Lieutenant was my brother in law, having married my half sister. He was a mason, and died but a few years ago in Dutchess County where his sons now live. He was shaving when word came that the Refugee horse was coming. The Refugee Officers while attacking said: "Now you are half shaved, Mosier, you had better give up." - "I will not." - "You had better or you're a gone man." &c. &c. These facts I had from him, after hearing him tell the story.