When Colonel Hatfield returned from Middle Patent, with cattle, &c, in July, 1780, Captain Richard Sacket was patroling with 40 or 50 men in the neighborhood of King Street. Lieut. Mosier proposed that they should waylay him. Sacket for a long time refused, saying he had not men enough. Mosier urged and at last asked leave to take all who would volunteer and make the attempt alone. Sacket at length consented to go with his whole force. They accordingly took a position on the road by which Hatfield was retreat- -ing, some distance east of Clapp's bridge on the Bryam. Mosier was posted in the road (that is across it) with part of the company, while Sacket with the rest lined the fence
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on each side. Hatfield's advanced guard composed of a small number of bold men immediately charged Mosier at speed (though fired upon) and cut their way through, escaping through White Plains. Mosier in- -stantly reformed and strengthened his line across the road, and as Hat- -field's main body approached com- -menced firing by platoons. The Refu- -gees now halted, and not knowing the size of the force opposed to them, and concluding from the firmness of the men, the suitableness of the spot for an ambuscade (it was a dangerous defile) and the regularity of the platoon firing, that they were opposed by a strong body of continentals. They abandoned the cattle and attempted to retire between King Street and the Sound (on some road probably par- -allel with King Street. Here they were met and attacked by Colonel Bebee at the head of some Connecticut