246 590 111. 101 [margin: PARIS] November 5. Thaddeus Bell, of Darien, aged 89. "I was taken off from Middlesex Church by Captain Frost and confined in the Provost (New Jail) for four or five months. Frost landed on the Point on the east side of the Scotch Cove, and so marched up through the woods, lying concealed in a swamp about fifty rods from the church till afternoon, when they captured and t…

Our folks assembled in the afternoon under Major Davenport when the sun was about two hours high and attacked the Refugees who at one time left the inner island in consequence of the briskness of the attack, but soon returned rallying the men and manning the Isle of Rocks again. They fired upon Davenport from behind the rocks and sand bank and kept him off. Davenport thought it best to wait for so…

Joseph Hoyt, the Refugee who fought with Captain Hoyt, was son of Colonel Joseph Hoyt of Stamford, a Colonel in the Revolutionary war, and a Captain in the old French war. Captain Charles Thomas was said to have been from New Haven, and a hard, rough, man. I saw Brom. Barrett hanged at Titus's Bridge upon an apple tree on the side hill. He had been a cow boy and placed in custody of a guard, but F…

254 594 115. 105 [margin: PARIS] Raymond Silleck was from Long Neck in Middlesex and went to the British, but returned, and after remaining about here, considering his youth, both overlooked his flight to the enemy, but some months afterwards he went to the British again. He was soon after with a party of Refugees that took a small vessel at the eastward, and put the Refugees Silleck and White Ray…

One John Mills was one of the Refugees, but, I think, was not the Commander. The Refugees landed at a spot near where the house of Mills' father stood. The Americans next day found this spot from the marks in the sand, and Captain Nathaniel Slosson the Commander of the Coast guard told old Mills he would give him that day to remove the house, and if he did not in that time he, Slosson, would do it…

He engaged the advanced party returning from above with cattle, &c. Hubbell then came down, also returning from above, and marching in rear of the advance guard for the east. He instantly took post on the American right behind a stone wall which ran north and south, and so raked the Americans killing two, and wounding several of the Americans. If Howe had posted his party on the west side of the r…

They got the cattle on board, but while they were getting up the sever anchor and getting under sail, the Americans had collected and fired from the shore killing eight of the enemy. I was told of this by an English = man while I was in prison at New York. This English man was with the Refugees in voluntarily having come to [Loyds Neck] to claim claim his vessel, just as they were sailing with her…

John's house, and knew a door that was not closed at night, so that they got into Col. St. John's bed room without any alarm, and took him, his son, Isaac, Isaac, the father of Benjamin and Charles. [margin: See page 119. P. 26 of original for another version of St. John's capture. JB.] De Lancey's horse once came within a mile of Stamford village. This was the furthest east they ever were, I bel…

This was musketry. The next day I was at Saugatuck and passed over the Bridge. We attacked the north end of Compo hill, displaying as we advanced. Major Bradley at Stratford, one of General Wooster's aids was along side of us on horse back. We attempted to take the hill, but they fired with cannon and prevented us. A good many of our bucks were killed and [margin: Compo.] wounded at Compo. Genl. …