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October 26th. Zaccheus Mead, of Horseneck: When Delancey in 1780 made an excursion to Horseneck with his cavalry they advanced from Sherwood's Bridge and retreated across Byram. They came suddenly upon a sentinel posted near the guard house and south of Sherwood's bridge road who fired and ran. Captain
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Zaccheus Mead cont'd
Fowler with one or two of his men then rode opposite the guard house and called upon them to surrender. They answered by a general discharge. Fowler was not killed outright, but lived a short time and bled to death, when they took off his cravat. It was supposed an artery was cut. The dragoons set fire to the house, and the guard attempted to escape running northerly, but they were overtaken in the fields by the horse, and all who had been in the guard house were killed. The guard house stood north of the Sherwood Bridge road where a white house is now situated, and Fowler was taken into and died at the adjacent house next to the guard house. Easterly towards Horseneck where he died. [This house is now standing, and can't be more than 200 feet from where the guard house stood.] His body was taken down by a flag a day or two afterwards. The guard house was burnt, and a house near the church belonging to two brothers named Smith. This house is said to have been
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