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October 31st Jonathan Mills, of Bedford - 83 years old: "On the day Poundridge was taken, I was sent to drive the cattle of my father and of our neighbours to a place of safety, but unfortunately, I conducted them directly into the hands of the enemy whom I met on their return. They took all the cattle; but, after driving them some distance let them go, and we got them again.
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Colonel Holmes, I think, com- -manded the party that burnt Bed- -ford and directed his own house to be fired first, knowing he would be paid for it. There was a company or two of militia posted the day before to guard the roads east of the village. They, the Refugees, attempted to go (that is, a part of them) to Middle Patent for the purpose of burning the houses of some whigs obnoxious to them, but when they came to Mahanus river (about half a mile from Bedford or the Middle Patent road) finding the bridges taken up (the road passes over a small island) and the stream deep and muddy, they retired.
There was a company or two of militia posted the day before to guard the roads east of the village. They, the Refugees, attempted to go (that is, a part of them) to Middle Patent for the purpose of burning the houses of some whigs obnoxious to them, but when they came to Mahanus river (about half a mile from Bedford or the Middle Patent road) finding the bridges taken up (the road passes over a small island) and the stream deep and muddy, they retired.