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. A heavy man and horse could not get around them. Was the deep snow in 1779 or 1780?
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Three or four months after Thomas's visit, [X] five whaleboats from Norwalk and Stamford were prevented from returning home by an Easterly storm and came to City Island at night for shelter where they paroled all the inhabitants, but behaved very civilly in other respects. They went round to all the houses, &c., and put us under parole of honor not to molest them in any way. We were not consequently prisoners (only not to molest trouble them). Next morning some men of the Guard -ship's boats came on shore for water, and some of the whaleboat men conversed with them without being discovered. One of the neighbors (not wishing the British sailors, to be taken, and afraid to speak out in presence of the whaleboat men who would not allow them to talk with