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October 19th John Carpenter: Jotham Purdy was killed at night about a mile from Rye on the road to Purchase [X]. The man was conspicuous from the circumstance of his wearing a long white feather in his cap. Ten or twelve fired at him, and he fell pierced with six or seven balls. He left a son named Andrew. My father (Thomas’s Quarter master) was taken by Simcoe when Genl Thomas was taken. There were about twenty men in Thomas’s house that night. Toward morning the dogs all along the road towards Purchase Street barked. This alarmed Carpenter who dressed himself and awoke Thomas. Thomas said he would not get up, and told Carpenter there was no danger &c. Both then slept for some moments until Thomas’s watch dogs began to bark, when getting up they found the house surrounded. Carpenter said, “I guess you’ll rise now!” Carpenter attempted to escape by getting under a bed, and there received a great many bayonet wounds before [X] Purchase Street?

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he surrendered. (Thomas, at first, said he would jump from the window and run; and Cunningham said he would but the moment he sprang, the British cried out: “An escape! an escape! Fire! fire!” and one hundred guns were levelled. This deterred Carpenter who then got under the bed.) James Brundage fired from the window and killed a dragoon by Simcoe’s side. Capt. Ogden with a party of horse was in pursuit of Reuben Lane one of Thomas’s party, who had run to a thicket. Thomas alarmed at the ferocity of Simcoe’s party, and the fate of Brundage, sprang from a window and escaped, though one hundred shots were fired at him. He ran to an adjoining wood and there fell in with Ogden’s party who fired at him. Ogden called to him to surrender to him, held his sword over him and protected him, and claimed him as his prisoner. Thomas always recognized Ogden as his preserver, and assisted and protected him after peace.

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Richard Sackett of Bedford was Captain of the company of Levies in which Mosier was lieutenant. Sackett had stopped at Josiah Fowler’s tavern in Purchase Street near Merritts corner for breakfast, and was shaving when surprised by Kipp. Oct 23rd. Sackett had shaved one side of his face when taken. His company was encamped in the field opposite Merritts corner along the first fence that runs parallel to Purchase Street and east of it. Mosier was with the company at breakfast and retreated through the fields easterly and a line parallel to and near the road from Purchase Street to King Street. In a field beyond (that is, east of) General Thomas’s in an open (field) plain on rising ground a little east of an old chestnut tree which stands in a small copse of locusts and south of the road from the Purchase Street to King Street, he was over taken by Kipp.

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He formed his men (fewer than thirty) in a solid body [X], himself in the centre, having previously addressed them and told them how to act, &c., saying that all depended upon their coolness and courage, and that they could not be taken if true to themselves, &c, &c. ‘Tis said he was much assisted in this by Slaughter or Slater, a sergeant, who formed his men and harangued them. Kipp continued his changes for an hour and a half, and was wounded and lost his horse which was killed. His party consisted of about sixty. [X] a “solid square.” J.E.