They then sent search in every direction to search the neck they searched so thoroughly for them, that they got up into the top of a large tree, to spend the night. They had been there but a short time, when five or six Refugees came under the same tree + talked about lying down. One of them said there was another tree, a little way off and that would be better to sleep under than that + they started off. The three men then came down from the tree making as little noise as possible. Horton had taken off his shoes to climb the tree + set them under a bush; while he was putting them on a man came along + asked who they were, they said of his own party; He
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went immediately (as they expected) and alarmed the refugees. Horton + Owens made their escape. One of the Refugees pursued Ferris + he ran through a field of his mothers, where before he left home, large stones had been dug up + left holes in the ground. He crooked about among the holes, until the refugee plunged into one, and then Ferris made his escape. Luther Kinnicutt who was acting as spy for the Americans, was on the neck at the time + he, with one Robert Simmons (who had been a Refugee Lieut, but had taken disgust + come back to the Americans) endeav= ored to secrete these men. They built them up in a very wide stone wall near the water side, where they remained 2 or 3 days. Kinnicutt + Simmons laid sedge along the sides of the wall and fed them privately through the holes in the wall. At length Ferris said there was a place at the upper end of the neck that was fordable at low tide.