Williams after the war kept a public house at New Rochelle. Shube Merritt took Capt. Lockwood (?) prisoner. And not wishing to be troubled with prisoners said, "Stand off so many as twenty(?) paces ^or run so many paces, I will then fire, and if &c, and if my gun misses fire you shall go clear!" Merritt's gun missed fire, and Lockwood forthwith escaped. Afterwards Lockwood was patrolling in Rye and heard that Merritts was in Mamaroneck with a party. He
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pursued, and Shubal Merritt with five others retreated along the shore to a house at New Rochelle landing. Here they were surrounded. They took to the upper story and refused to surrender. Lockwood, then exclaimed, that they must burn the house. Fire was supplied, and when Shubal's party felt the smoke they offered to give up on promise of quarter. - Quarter was given, but Lockwood then said, "Merritt, you shall have the same quarter you gave me. Go twenty paces and if I miss, you are clear." Shube ran, Lockwood fired and killed him dead. Shube was a small man from Rye or near there. Delancy's officers, Huggeford, Holmes, Totten, Kipp, and Knapp, were present one day when it was proposed to make a trial of the speed of their horses, and Tim Knapp rode the Colonel's horse which distanced the other horses, and Knapp took him off.
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Carpenter commanded the party that brought him in and told him he had better escape for Delancy would hang him, but Knapp said, "No." They were passing a wood near John Treadwell's in East Chester, when Carpenter advised his escape which he might have accom plished by jumping from his horse.