He said to my father who directed him to a bed upstairs: "I hope you will not betray me." He slept late, and my father rose early, and deeming it his duty informed the authorities who took him (Ballott). His execution without judge or jury was generally censured. He was a foreigner - and, I believe, an Irishman. Mrs. Bearmore, mother of Abm. Bear- -more, lives four miles northerly from Peeks- -kill, with her son Mead Bearmore, near Mr. Fox's, and not far from Turn pike road. The widow of Jabez Hobby, a Refugee,
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Mad. Mead contd.
a Refugee lived near the Toll gate and must remember much. &c. Putnam encountered most danger after arriving at the bottom of the hill. Here he leaped his horse over the north side of the fence, and passing in rear of a farm house (?) rode furiously through a swampy piece of ground over- -grown with bushes, his fine horse leaping fences and obstacles until safe, &c.
- Hufeland Index Page 076 - Mad. Mead contd. a Refugee lived near the Toll gate and must remember much. &c. Putnam encountered most danger after arriving at the bottom of the hill. Here he leaped his horse over the north side of the fence, and passing in rear of a farm house (?) rode furiously through a swampy piece of ground over- -grown with bushes, his fine horse leaping fences and obstacles until safe, &c.