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October 18th. Joshua Putney aged 84: "When Davenport's house was taken, one Akerly broke in and entered first Colonel Green seized, threw him down, and was upon the point of dispatching him with his sword when he received a cut in the arm which disabled him. Akerly was from near Pine's Bridge. Major Morris happened to be out court- -ing and escaped. The officer commanding at the Bridge and who insulted Totten escaped on the 14th May 1781, by accidentally being absent at the time of attack, two or three miles off. [General Montross tells part of this. J. M. M.] Don't know where Rhode Island Village was, unless it was the houses on the north side Pine's Bridge -, Flewellings ^Mrs. Remsens, Widow Griffens and David Montross's, &c. Totten was humane to prisoners and
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and popular but Sam Kipp severe.
The officer commanding at the Bridge and who insulted Totten escaped on the 14th May 1781, by accidentally being absent at the time of attack, two or three miles off. [General Montross tells part of this. J. M. M.] Don't know where Rhode Island Village was, unless it was the houses on the north side Pine's Bridge -, Flewellings ^Mrs. Remsens, Widow Griffens and David Montross's, &c. Totten was humane to prisoners and - Hufeland Index Page 715 - and popular but Sam Kipp severe.