only one dollar! They demanded more. Father said that was all he had &c. A gentleman now spoke: "How d'e do, Mr. Banks?" "I don't know who you are," said father, much frightened and trembling like a leaf. "What! do'nt you know an old neighbor?" "No," said my father, "I do'nt recollect you." "I am Colonel Holmes (?)" replied the stranger. My father then reasoned with and shamed Colonel Holmes for a…

A few plunderers remained behind to take off what remained of our clothes My brother Samuel (a Lieutenant) was concealed between two beds and suffocated almost. He at last got his gun, went out and fired at them. This alarmed them, and an officer came back, struck the plunderers with the flat of his sword and made them give up the plunder They took off all our cattle but when my brother fired at t…