[Newport] October 3.
On Monday Eveng. last [October 2], the Men o' War being drawn down to Brentons Point to steal Stock to carry to Boston, two or 300 Men (about 50 Armed) went down into the Neck, & by Ten o'Clock drove off the Stock, near a hundred Head of Cattle, with Sheep &c & brought them up the Island. [James] Wallace threatened but did not fire on them. The Brentons' Stock was refused ー they are Tories.
1. Franklin Bowditch Dexter, ed., The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles, D.D., LL.D. (New York, 1901), I, 620. Hereafter cited as Dexter, ed., Diary of Ezra Stiles.
