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Madam Mead. Octr. 31st Madam (the Widow of Andrew) Mead, of Horseneck: My husband, Andrew Mead, was a whaleboat man. The [country] Connt. [X1] was infested by plunders, and Congress authorized and recommended retaliation by whaleboats which attacked the enemy's vessels in the Sound. Captain Lockwood and my husband commanded the party of whale boatmen that took the Sholdrum [X2] in East Chester Bay. Andrew Mead and Lock- -wood, when they approached and were hailed, answered [X3]: "We want to come under your lee for protection." Andrew
[X1] Connecticut?
[X2] Shuldham?
[X3] It was Lockwood who answered. He commanded. J.E.
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Madam Mead contd.
Mead was the first to spring on board. The British vessel was surrounded by a netting eight or ten feet high which he cut. The sentry fired at and wounded him. He (Mead) then having cut through fired at the sentinel and missed him. He then boarded, followed, at first, by only three or four. Having fired their guns and pistols, Mead ran to the windlass and called upon the men to arm with the spears (boarding pikes) on board. An officer with some of the marines appeared who cried out, "Kill him! Kill him!" Mead when he first came on board had directed his men to close the hatches to prevent the marines from coming up, and he now rushed to the cabin door to get possession and close it when he met the Captain coming on deck with a pistol in each hand both of which he fired at him (Mead) and wounded him in each shoulder - Mead, at the same time, wounding the captain severely with his pike (?) in the breast and ide. The other whale boat men now came