Shube then said he admired his courage, and should henceforth be his friend, and, saying that sick and among strangers he must want money, put his hand in his pocket and gave him a guinea. - Shube was killed, at New Rochelle, a few days before the peace was declared. He killed the French commissary in or near King Street, and took 150 Louis d'ors from him, in 1781. Cornet Thomas Merritt [X] after the Revolution went to Upper
([X] This must have been the Cornet (alluded to - and whose name is left blank, in the first Note Book I copied) who was with Simcoe. J.E.)
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Lott Merritt contd.
Canada, and there held the office of Sheriff [probably under Simcoe]. The foragers of both parties when they took for their friends gave certificates which were afterwards paid. Jotham Purdy was from Northcastle or thereabouts (?) and was killed on the road from Rye to the Purchase about a mile from Rye. A rock indicates the spot. Mosier is not entitled to the credit of the famous defence against Kipp's horse. It is chiefly due to Slater or Slaughter, an officer (or Sergeant) under him who addressed the men telling them what to do, and exhorting them to be firm and they would make a successful defence &c. Kipp made successive discharges upon them for an hour and an half. The negro who served with the party was a slave (or servant) of Captain Sackett. Major Huggeford was born just over the line in Connecticut, and was a cousin of the Greens. He lived after peace