Fowler then galloped to the guard house (which stood on the north side of the road where a white house now stands) and called upon them to surrender, but they fired eight or ten shots, killed his horse, and mortally wounded him in the neck. The dragoons instantly surrounded the guard house, but the Americans would not surrender. They then fired the house and pursued the guard as they came out through the fields killing nine of them. This was, probably, the whole number. This guard
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was composed of drafted men - six or nine months men from back in the country. One of them was a boy of fourteen or fifteen. He was overtaken by a dra- -goon who had let his sword fall, and who told the boy if he would pick it up and hand it to him he would give him quarter. The boy complied, but when the trooper received his weapon, he struck the lad with it in the neck and almost separated his head from his body. The guard house was burnt and also a house owned by Daniel and Joshua Smith which stood near the meeting house. There was an old woman burnt to death in this house. Captain Fowler was taken into the house next east of the guard house on the north side of the road where it stands at the present time being known as the Nat. Mead House. He (Fowler) was wounded in the neck and complained of suffocation. They took off his cravat