86 982 [margin: Photo Lym of Lyon's Point. Samuel Lym of Sprain and John Bearmore of Horseneck.] No. 25. Huggeford Sherwood, of Sherwood's Bridge, Conn. aged 75. "The Refugees came up and cut off the guards at Sherwood's Bridge two or three different times. Once two men were killed at my grandfather's house - one in the house, and one in the road before the door; and once they (the Refugees) burnt…

I heard Major Huggeford (who gave me my name) say that Fade Donaldson was hanged for having killed Bron Barnett, and further that he gave Donaldson a fair court martial. Donaldson had several sons who tried to capture Major Huggeford during the war and threatened to kill him after his return from England here, so that for a while he carried arms for self defence. Captain Frink generally commanded …

Shube exclaimed, "You are a d--d poor soldier if you faint away at the sight of a little British blood!" There was a regular bridge at Sherwoods over Byram river built long before the Revolutionary war. David Lyon (brother to Daniel who married Shube Merritt's sister) went below and joined Emmerick's corps. He piloted [page break] 985 93 a party up once who cut off the guard at Sherwood's Bridge. …