There were a great many tories in Quaker Hill, Fredericksburg, Dover, Beckman, and New Fairfield in Connecticut. Newtown, in Connecticut, contained only seven whigs, and one of them got so drunk one 4th of July at dinner that he died, and so there remained only six. Adjutant James Grant had been a major in the British service and lived on the place where Osbourn afterwards lived adjacent to old James Grant's who was only a Lieutenant. Major James married Lieutenant James's sister. He was a royalist and went below. Nich. M. Lean who lived at Frede- -ricksburg was a Lieutenant in the old French
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war. He boarded there, being a batchelor and went below, and received a Captain's commission. Bernard Kane of Fredericksburg, (brother of John) was a schoolmaster there - went below, and got a Captain's commis- -sion in one of the new raised corps. Allen Cameron, a Scotchman and blacksmith at Fredericksburg went below and got to be a Captain. I don't know the first names of Hoag, and Major McKay. Major Menzies and James Grant were both prisoners on their parole which I believe was not to go further from home than six miles. Archibald Campbell, killed at Ward's house, was, I believe, only a Captain, but was soon to be promoted to a majority in one of the new raised corps. The name of Crawford, of Fredericksburg or South East, who belonged to Tarleton's Legion, was William. He was a brave man.