I heard Ben. Asten and others who belonged to Emmerick's say that the Colonel had a narrow escape that day. Barnes, I think, was not one of Emmerick's captains - Emmerick's men, I think, dressed in red. Barnes was taken when returning from an excursion above with plunder, and Major Leavenworth's force was disposed in ambush all around him - when he found the situation he was in, was advised by Lieut. Hunt to retreat
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easterly to Barker's Hill and make a stand there; but he said no, he would fight where he was (i.e. on Lent's Hill) and cut his way through the rebels. Leavenworth soon after with the party under his immediate command advanced upon Barnes, fired, killing several and charged when Barnes surrendered without even firing a musket. The Stockbridge Indians came down almost every day near Kingsbridge for ten days or more before they were cut off. Emme- -rick deceived by pretending to be afraid of them. They grew bold and in consequence were ambuscaded. Elijah Vincent ambushed the French because they killed his brother, a smith of East Chester who refused to shoe the horses of the French dragoons.
Leavenworth soon after with the party under his immediate command advanced upon Barnes, fired, killing several and charged when Barnes surrendered without even firing a musket. The Stockbridge Indians came down almost every day near Kingsbridge for ten days or more before they were cut off. Emme- -rick deceived by pretending to be afraid of them. They grew bold and in consequence were ambuscaded. Elijah Vincent ambushed the French because they killed his brother, a smith of East Chester who refused to shoe the horses of the French dragoons.