Knapp, Benjamin
John M. McDonald interview — 1848-10-31
Benjamin Knapp (1771-1866) of Round Hill in Greenwich, Connecticut, recounts an incident where a party of Refugees raided Round Hill neighborhood and stole cattle belonging to his family. He also describes the location of Peck’s Land, and notes that Charles Rundell took a pair of his father’s oxen near the end of the war.
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- Hufeland Index Page 777 -
<left margin> Benj. Knapp – 77 – “Peck’s Land,” west of Horton Reynolds – Hatfield – Father’s cattle. <left margin>
October 31st Benjamin Knapp of Roundhill: I am 78 years old. Once, sometime in the latter part of the war, the Refugees (a small party, perhaps not more than six or twelve came up here and took of my fathers and the neighbouring cattle (sparing the tories’ however) drove them across the field and through the woods and took them off. We never got them again This was in the middle of the day and in warm weather – in the latter part of the summer, I think. They took off at the time sheep and horses as well as cows, &c. “Peck’s Land” is west of where Horton Reynolds lived. My father was robbed of a pair of oxen which were taken off by Charles Rundell towards the end of the war, but which were recaptured.