Mead if she had any valuables to conceal them under the bed, and sit with her children and family on the bed - that he would do what he could to protect her, but he could not always control his soldiers. Colonel Wells was blamed for not attacking the enemy at 3 o'clock in the afternoon when on the retreat when many of the soldiers were drunk. The British ranks were a good deal disordered by the cannon shots which were frequent, and then 'twas said was the time to have charged if the Americans had had spunk. Colonel Wells was encamped at the time about
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two miles from Horseneck church but retreated towards Fort Nonsense which is in Stamford township two or three miles north of the upper Coscob Landing I don't remember much about Colonel Holdredge. The whaleboats were commissioned by Governor Trumbull to retaliate upon the Long Island Refugees [for] their plunder- -ing, &c. At Horseneck in 1779, Tryon almost surrounded the Americans before they commenced retreating. The Americans saw the main body of the British which advanced by the road, but didn't perceive the flank guards which at last got above them.
two miles from Horseneck church but retreated towards Fort Nonsense which is in Stamford township two or three miles north of the upper Coscob Landing I don't remember much about Colonel Holdredge. The whaleboats were commissioned by Governor Trumbull to retaliate upon the Long Island Refugees [for] their plunder- -ing, &c. At Horseneck in 1779, Tryon almost surrounded the Americans before they commenced retreating. The Americans saw the main body of the British which advanced by the road, but didn't perceive the flank guards which at last got above them.