October 21st Nehemiah Brown, of Rye, near Portchester: "Shube Merritt and his brother Thomas both belonged to Emmerick's. Thomas quarreled with Emmerick and drew his sword challenging him. He left the corps in consequence. Shube got Emmerick into so many scrapes by plundering &c that Emmerick expelled him. Shube and Thomas were both from Rye. Thomas joined the Queen's Rangers afterwards. Emmerick …

Dole then charged upon Adderton, but finding his strength failing from loss of blood, he put spurs to his horse and rode as far as Nathan Merritt's (about half a mile), where, faint from loss of blood, he remained and had his wound dressed, and staid till he recovered. Shube called at Merritt's and claimed Dole as his prisoner and demanded his property. Fearing Shube, Merritt's people surrendered …

The ball fell out of his neck [page break] Nehemiah Brown continued. and he instantly bled to death. When Tom Ferris and two others took Delancey's horse they were so hotly pursued, that Tom abandoned his friends, and meeting a quaker on horseback in East Chester, made him dismount and took his horse; but the horse, put to speed, soon tired, and jumping Ferris ran into a swamp, and afterwards got…