969 ⁶⁵ [margin: PARIS] close of the Revolutionary war, my father Captain Abraham Hyatt went down to Morrisania with a party to take Tillett and surrounded the house in which he lived, but did not succeed. I will write you a full account of this affair, and also communicate some interesting Revolutionary incidents together with a biographical sketch of my father's life, &c. Nov! 23. Isaac Davis of…

Once in July four Refugees came within a few rods of Fort Nonsense when they found a man ploughing in the field with two yoke of oxen! A wood intervened which screened them from observation at the fort. The Refugees took both man and oxen across the fields as far as Peck's Land when they let the man go. I saw this. [page break] 971 ⁶⁹ [margin: PARIS] We were reaping wheat that day, and the Refugee…

Peck's Land, is east of Byram river, and about two miles west of North Street, and about one and a half or two miles north of Horseneck Meeting House. I remember when Colonel Wells was taken at Horton Reynolds's in North St. no body was killed, and I know that Colonel Wells went off with one boat or and the other in his hand." Nov! 23d Denham Palmer, aged 84 of Horseneck, Connecticut: "Lieut. Wi…