Wilson, Hannah Sherwood, b.1767
John M. McDonald interview — 1849-12-01
Hannah Sherwood Wilson (b.1767) discusses activity around Sherwood’s Bridge in Greenwich, Connecticut, during the Revolutionary War, including the burning of her grandfather’s barn and an attempt to burn his house. She describes several notable figures from the area, and opines that the Skinners who raided the area “were worse, if any thing, than the cowboys.”
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- Hufeland Index Page 995 -
Decr. 1st Hannah Wilson, born Sherwood, at Sherwood’s Bridge: “I was born about half a mile east of Sherwood’s Bridge on the 21st of January 1767. Sherwood’s Bridge of the Revolutionary
- Hufeland Index Page 996 -
war was built about three years before I was born. Previously to this there was a bridge over the Byram. When the British party burnt my grandfather’s barn they set fire to his house, but my grandmother threw water on and extinguished it as fast as they fired it. So the house escaped. Major Huggeford was always well spoken of before, during the war, and afterwards. Colonel Thomas was a hard man, and hadn’t the reputation of being a very good soldier. Shube Merritt was a mischievous man and a plunderer. The Skinners who came from the north and east were worse, if any thing, than the cowboys.”