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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burnt at the instigation of Lockwood, one of Delancey's (Fowlers?) men who was from Horseneck and had had a quarrel with the Smith's. An infirm woman in the second story was burnt to death. Two barns were burnt at the same time which caught fire from the two houses. Five of the guard were killed and a number wounded - two mortally. - Delancey took some of the troops pri- -soners and a number of the inhabitants were taken off. The Refugees broke the windows of the houses of obnoxious persons when they retreated. [The cannon and the main body of the Americans must have been posted in the church. (?)] I was with Putnam on the morning of Tryon's attack in 1779. Col. Holdridge with a regiment of Eastern troops was in com- -mand at Horseneck. He sent a patrol down the day before under a captain with three horsemen. When the captain dis- -covered Tryon's party he was in East