As they retreated down Peek's Land Street, and approached an elbow in the road with thick woods on each side, Wells, who rode by the side of Huggeford said to him: - "Major, I have a patrol out which you will probably fall in with - allow me to fall to the rear." Huggeford replied: "No. I shall keep you close by me. You shall have the same chance &c, as myself." When they come to the short bend about a quarter of a mile south of Solomon Peck's, they were fired upon by the patrol, and the Refugee horse thrown into confusion fell back until the infantry came up which got upon the flanks of the Americans who thereupon retreated.
[X] Another account has it that he was captured in bed.
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Colonel Beebe lay at Horseneck near the Meeting House with his regiment when the attack was made upon Colonel Wells, and knowing that the Refugees would, probably, retreat by Sherwood's Bridge or by Jabez Sherwoods bridge a quarter ^half? of a mile north of Sherwood's Bridge, he immediately put his men in motion. By dint of run- -ning they arrived part at one bridge and part at the other within (in less than) six minutes after Huggeford had passed the Jabez Sherwood bridge. The Jabez Sherwood consisting of only a couple of logs lying side by side, and being wide enough for a man to pass. Long after this, Huggeford said he started on an excursion for cattle with a party of horse and foot intending to advance up the Byram river road to Quaker Ridge, and then crossing the Round Hill to get to North Street and then return by Peck's Land Street sweeping off all the cattle from that neighborhood.