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<left margin> Mansfield Bearmore and brother, of Horse- -neck. (?) - Huggeford - forded the Byram - See top of page 51 of original. </left margin>
Decr. 1st. Samuel Lyon, of Weaver Street: "I am about 62 or 63 years old and was born here. I knew Major Huggeford well. He was a bold, enterprising soldier. He told me that when he took off Colonel Wells, his party forded the Byram about three fourths of a mile or more above Sherwood's Bridge and then stopped at the house of one Ebenezer Knapp which they surrounded, and called for Knapp who made his appearance
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at the door very cautiously musket in hand. He cried aloud, "Come out, Knapp! I wont hurt you. You are a great rascal I know, but I only want you to guide me to Colonel Wells's Quarters." Knapp then came out, and he and the other guides were directed to make a circuit so as to advance upon Wells's Headquarters from the north. The party then moved on, passing across Pecks Land and Clabord Ridge (?) near which last place [X] they came out into a North Street, (?) and attacked the three farmhouses simul- -taneously. When Sherwood's barn was burnt, Bearmore was up with his corps. A party of British horse made a circuit, forded the Byram, and getting upon the Horseneck road, came to the attack from the east, charging at full speed with loud cries of "surrender ye d--d Rebels! - surrend- -der!" At the very same moment the rest of the British party advanced to Sherwood's bridge from the west and