86 982 [margin: Photo Lym of Lyon's Point. Samuel Lym of Sprain and John Bearmore of Horseneck.] No. 25. Huggeford Sherwood, of Sherwood's Bridge, Conn. aged 75. "The Refugees came up and cut off the guards at Sherwood's Bridge two or three different times. Once two men were killed at my grandfather's house – one in the house, and one in the road before the door; and once they (the Refugees) burnt my grandfather's barn. Colonel Emmerick commanded one of the British parties. I remember the British parties coming up as many as three different times and cutting off the guard at Sherwood's Bridge. Once they came up to Sherwood's Bridge, and cut off the guard there, and went down Weaver Street to Byram Bridge and cut off the guard at that place. They might have cut off both guards oftener than once, but I only recollect one instance. The Refugees generally got in the rear by going up the river, and then crossing the fields, and so attacking on the Horseneck side. The old Sherwood house now standing at Glenville was the American guard house. The Guards at 73 [page break] 983 89 Byram and Sherwoods Bridges were cut off so frequently that the American lines were drawn back to Titus's bridge on Mahanus river and Palmers hill which commenced by the river.

I heard Major Huggeford (who gave me my name) say that Fade Donaldson was hanged for having killed Bron Barnett, and further that he gave Donaldson a fair court martial. Donaldson had several sons who tried to capture Major Huggeford during the war and threatened to kill him after his return from England here, so that for a while he carried arms for self defence. Captain Frink generally commanded and came up with the horse. He was a pretty harsh severe man; and took off cattle and prisoners from this neighborhood frequently. William Mosier was born near here in Weaver Street. John Bearmore (at Horton Reynolds) was 74. [page break] 90 984 father of Mansfield Bearmore and another Bearmore, both of whom live in Horseneck village. The name of Reynolds who killed Shube Merritt was Samuel, I think. [margin: Taylor] Phoebe Merritt, sister of Thomas and Shube (Merritt) and widow of Benjamin Lyon, lives with her son Daniel (Lyon) on Lyon's Point. When Shube Merritt lost his hand and the surgeon was dressing his wound, a young lad, an American soldier at that time in the service, expressed a desire to see a Refugee, and went where Shube was, but fainted at the sight. Shube exclaimed, "You are a d—d poor soldier if you faint away at the sight of a little British blood!" There was a regular bridge at Sherwoods over Byram river built long before the Revolutionary war. David Lyon (brother to Daniel who married Shube Merritt's sister) went below and joined Emmerick's corps. He piloted 75 [page break] 985 93 a party up once who cut off the guard at Sherwood's Bridge. The Refugees for the most part came up in the night. It was night when they attacked Sherwood's Bridge generally.

[margin: Mansfield Bearmore and brother, of Stone Street, are now living on fields by Byram on N.Y. side. P. 51 of original.] Dec. 1st Samuel Lyon, of Weaver Street: "I am about 62 or 63 years old and was born here. I knew Major Huggeford well. He was a bold, enterprising soldier. He told me that when he took off Colonel Wells, his party forded the Byram about three fourths of a mile or more above Sherwood's Bridge and then stopped at the house of one Ebeneza Knapp which they surrounded, and called for Knapp, who made his appearance 76