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. He accordingly
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proceeded successfully until he got one mile and an half above Sherwood's Bridge upon the Byram road to a spot where high rocks on each side of the road nearly meet each other. Here there was a party of about thirty or forty militia who were lying with their faces upon these rocks, whose height ren- -dered them inaccessible. This was in the night. Huggeford, who knew every crook and turn of this country (having been brought up at old Reuben Green's about half a mile north of Sherwood's bridge on the road that runs along the Byram) was with the van, because he knew the country better than any of his men, and was afraid of this very spot. As the vanguard of horse approached, they were saluted by a sheet of fire from each side of the road. He immediately ordered a retreat, and returned to Morrisania. The rock on the east side of the road is as much as 25 feet high, and nearly perpendicular - but a