Macdonald, John. Interview with Holly, Isaac, 1764-1851; (1849-11-22). Experiencing the Neutral Ground of the American Revolution: The McDonald Interviews, WCHS item 1773. Transcription courtesy of the Westchester County Historical Society (No copyright - United States).

- Hufeland Index Page 960 - Novr. 22d Isaac Holly, of West Greenwich, Connecticut, aged 84: "Three Refugees came up to Stanwich and played cards to decide who should kill June who lived east of Stanwich Meeting House. The lot fell upon a person who refused. Silas Chapman (one of the party) offered to commit the assassination if they would treat him. They consented, and he …

It occurred however about the same time. The late Benjamin Brush of Stanwich told me this day story and he saw the affair." [X] Chapman was not killed until sometime after June's death. "Sometime (I think about the middle of the war) four armed British vessels chased two American privateers from somewhere in the Sound to one of the Horseneck Harbours. The privateers ran for …

Finding that this didn't produce the necessary effect the British determined to storm the privateers and their allies. I was a boy and saw the attack. The troops were sheltered by some high rocks behind which they lay in safety. The privateers men took their cannon ashore which was put in position and fired briskly upon the British shipping as they approached As the British …

- Hufeland Index Page 964 - The schoolhouse, occupied during the war as a guard house and prison, stood about twenty rods east of the Bridge. When the sentry was killed at the school house (see Enos Hobby's account) the officer in command was thought to have done wrong. He posted the third sentinel without informing him where the second was. Whaleboats sometimes used sails and …

I think Enos Hobby is mistaken, and that it was the sentinel posted in advance about thirty rods from the school house near a hickory tree who flashed his gun, upon which the sentinel by the school house fired and killed him. The second sentry, it was said, didn't know where the first ^third? one was stationed. I am certain I am not mistaken in this. Captain Frink resigned his …

The ice was too weak for the horsemen I believe. Tim Knapp when about to be hung exclaimed - 'Must I be hung for stealing one horse when so many horses have been taken by Delancey's Refugees?' His brother Tom was killed by Titus Mead. The hickory tree where the sentinel was killed is on the west side of the salt creek, and there is a large oak tree near which the schoolhouse …