Shube Merritt was killed by Samuel Reynolds of Greenwich and Peter Smith of Stamford at N.R. [New Rochelle] or Ryers Point. Shube had once taken Reynolds prisoner and snapped his pis- -tol at him twice without effect after he had surrendered. He then pointed it up in the air and it went off. Then Shube said: "I'll now save you. My pistol never missed fire before." He then gave him quarter, and took him prisoner
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Smith had been once taken also by Shube and ill treated. I believe Shube snapped a pistol at him too. At any rate Smith always said he would kill him if it should ever be in his power. Smith always said that he never promised to give quarter to Shube, but that he (Shube) came down stairs with a pistol in his hand, and that he and Reynolds both fired and killed him upon the stairs. Samuel Reynold's never com- -manded a whale boat. Reynolds Finch was a whaleboat captain. Captain Ebenezer Jones died at Troy to which place he had gone to live. Capt. Isaac Jones also died many years ago at Darien where he lived. Captain Frink was a very gentlemanly man from somewhere East. He was a brisk, smart, young man, and acted a long time as a spy for the Americans.
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Afterwards he went below and joined the British. Then he used to come up and give us a good deal of trouble with the horse commanded by him. At last he was taken prisoner and placed under guard in the guard house at Stamford village. Here one of the guard, an Irishman named Wilson [X] allowed him to escape. They were at first going to hang Wilson, but at last they tied him to a horse's tail, then drove him through the street and hanged him on a tree before Parson Dibble's door (the Episcopal minister).