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Novr. 4th. Martha, wife of James Lyon before mentioned, and daughter of John Banks of Middle Patent: "I am 88, one year only older than my husband. Once towards the close of the war, early about daylight of a Sunday morning in the Fall, I think, Colonel Holmes at the head of a party of Refugees came to my father's house in the Middle Patent. Father had been guarding the cattle all night. They were for safety kept in the yard, where they could be seen. The first we knew they broke and cut the windows with their swords. My father was abed with the curtains drawn. They sur- -rounded the house and forced the doors, and demanded all our money. My father gave them his pocket book which containd
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only one dollar. They demanded more. Father said that was all he had &c. A gentleman now spoke: "How d'e do, Mr. Banks?" "I don't know who you are," said father, much frightened and trembling like a leaf. "What! don't you know an old neighbor?" "No," said my father, "I don't recollect you." "I am Colonel Holmes (?)" replied the stranger. My father then reasoned with and shamed Colonel Holmes for allowing an old acquaintance to be robbed. He replied "That is the usage of war." Just before this I heard them say, "Give up your money, or you are a dead man!" I ran into the room in my night dress, and knocked up the muzzle of a gun pointed at my father's breast They took off all our bed clothes and most of our other clothes which we never got again. They enquired