705 169 [margin: 38] October 17th. Genl. Bernardus Mon= tross: "In the Revolutionary war Seth Whitney, a man sixty or seventy years old, grandfather of my wife, lived upon and owned the farm, now my property, and where I at present reside. He was often plundered, and at one time his guns and all his arms were taken away by robbers who left him without any weapon but an old bayonet. Fear= ing anoth…

Whitney immediately struck at him with the pike before he had time to rise, and gave him a mortal wound in the body, but Hughson got on the floor grappled his assailant by the legs, threw him down, discharged a pistol at him, and then rose, trampled upon and tried to kill him. Finding his strength failing Hughson called out to his comrades: "Help boys! the old Son of a Bitch has killed me!" They t…