Our men then came out of the hold and fired, sweeping the deck of the Shuldham and preventing the crew from coming on deck, they being asleep below. It was then not far from daylight. Our men then cut away the netting which was nearly ten feet high and boarded. Mead was the foremost in boarding. He was wounded by the British captain Roney of the Shuldham, a sloop or guard vessel, of twelve [X] guns. The Shuldham was then taken into Stamford where the Scotch Captain Roney died, of his wound inflicted by Mead, at my aunt's (the widow Hubbard) at Stamford. Roney said he didn't wish wish to recover, considering himself disgraced by the way he was taken. I nursed Andrew Mead who was taken to my father's house at Stamford. When the fight between Brewster and Hoyt occurred, Brewster and Ryder
[X] 10 guns, in another account.
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were at Chapan Point where some Continental troops and whaleboat men were waiting to cross the sound, and make an attack on Loyd's Neck. The wind was blowing hard from the east, and the sea so rough they could not cross, in consequence of which they delayed and were waiting for better weather. On the morning of the 5th of December, 1782, Brew- -ster espied two British whaleboats off the Norwalk Islands and made for them. The British Captain was Joseph Hoyt, and another whose name might have been Johnson, but I think not. I believe Johnson commanded another whale boat with Hoyt and made his escape. Val. Ryder was with Brewster and killed two negroes in the boat to which he was opposed which then surrendered. Ryder then bore down to assist Brewster and Hoyt surrendered. Hoyt told me that he would have taken Brewster, if