Decr. 6th & 11th Daniel Rowell of White Plains: "I lived formerly near Round hill, in north Greenwich, and was born in West Greenwich in July in (about) 1775. I knew Major Huggeford well, and have often heard him relate his adventures. He said that when they attacked the stone house with about 700 choice troops he was along (Youngs house?) and that the British loss was large. The killed and wounded were taken below in seventeen sleds. Hugge-ford, [said he commanded] the Refugees, and other horse and charged three different times without success — charging and forming again after being driven back by the Continentals. Huggeford said he came near being broke for his want of success this time, and that he was brought to a Court martial, &c.

Sometime after this affair, Huggeford said that a party, pretty strong Refugee force went up under another officer, his superior, or Senior (Major Bearmore?). The Refugees were led into an ambush and

the commanding officer killed. The command then devolved upon Huggeford who wheeled the Refugee force about and retreated instantly.

When Colonel Wells was taken he was writing up stairs, [marg: * Another account has it that he was captured in bed.] and the Refugees fired into his window. Huggeford took him off without giving him time to put on his boots, upon a horse that had no saddle on. As they retreated down Peck's Land Street, and approached an elbow in the road with thick woods on each side, Wells, who rode by the side of Huggeford said to him:- "Major, I have a patrol out which you will probably fall in with — allow me to fall to the rear." Huggeford replied: "No. I shall keep you close by me. You shall have the same chance &c, as myself." When they came to the short bend about a quarter of a mile south of Solomon Peak's, they were fired upon by the patrol, and the Refugee horse, [inter: thrown] into confusion fell back until the infantry came up which got upon the flanks of the Americans who thereupon retreated.

[marg: Huggeford said that Well's had injured his grand-mother.] Colonel Beebe lay at Horseneck near the Meeting House with his regiment when the attack was made upon Colonel Wells, and knowing that the Refugees would, probably, retreat by Sherwood's Bridge or by Jabez Sherwoods, [inter: bridge, half?] a quarter of a mile north of Sherwood's Bridge, he immediately put his men in motion. By dint of run- =ning they arrived part at one bridge and part at the other, within (in less than) six minutes after Huggeford had passed the Jabez Sherwood bridge.)

The Jabez Sherwood consisting of only a couple of logs lying side by side, and being wide enough for a man to pass.

Long after this, Huggeford said he started on an excursion for cattle with a party of horse and foot intending to advance up the Byram river road to Quaker Ridge, and then crossing to Round Hill to get to North Street and then return by Peck's Land Street sweeping off all the cattle from that neighborhood. He accordingly

proceeded successfully until he got one mile and an half above Sherwood's Bridge upon the Byram road to a spot where high rocks on each side of the road nearly meet each other. Here there was a party of about thirty or forty militia who were lying with their faces upon these rocks, whose height rendered them inaccessible. This was in the night. Huggeford, who knew every crook and turn of this country (having been brought up at old Reuben Green's about half a mile north of Sherwood's bridge on the road that runs along the Byram) was with the van, because he knew the country better than any of his men, and was afraid of this very spot. As the vanguard of horse approached, they were saluted by a sheet of fire from each side of the road. He immediately ordered a retreat, and returned to Morrisania. The rock on the east side of the road is as much as 25 feet high, and nearly perpendicular — but a

little slanting. The other (west) rock is about ten feet high. The militia men then fired down into the road in perfect security, but fired too high, and consequently didn't kill many of the Refugees. It was almost impossible for the Refugees to force this pass, as they would have had to en= =counter a dreadful cross fire.

Nehemiah Sherwood, who lived in King Street, at the corner of the Sherwoods Bridge road, was a soldier under Wayne at the capture of Stoney Point. He said the Americans in their advance [were] silent as death, until the British dis= =covered them and commenced a general fire; but that after that Wayne's stento= =rian voice could be heard distinctly above the din of battle," &c.