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(Widow *Hugette* 10th St. between Broadway and 3rd Avenue on the south side adjacent to a small yellow wooden house.)
November 11 Jesse Mullinex: "Towards the end of the war (I think) two wood sloops - one of them being owned by Israel Baxter came out of Cow Harbor go- -ing to New York when three whaleboats secreted at City Island, getting between them and the land, attempted to cut them off, though they hugged the shore. The inhabitants of Long Island turned out and fired upon the whale boat men who were close in shore and exposed to a crossfire, and thus had three or four of their men wounded who were taken to Harts Island. The sloops got off. In the summer of 1776, I think, (or perhaps in September) two British vessels came from the Eastward and landed about fifty men at City Island which they surrounded, and shot five
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or six steers and took them off, but took none of the inhabitants prisoners. The cattle belonged partly to the inhabitants and partly were owned on Long Island, and were at pasture on City Island. Col. Drake immediately came down with his regiment and took the cattle, for safety, all off. Shube Merrittt took one Ackley, (?) I think, prisoner, and said: "I never take prisoners but what I sacrifice; but I give the Devil some!" and snapped his pistol at him (Oakley Ackley) three times, and then said: "If you ever take me serve me in the same way." He was taken and so served at a house now standing at New Rochelle dock. Fade Donaldson and five or six in a sleigh were pursued by a party of DeLancey's horse. Fade and his men jumped off whenever the horseman came near and faced them.