Middletown, 14 July 1775
[Extract]
Last Monday [July 10] the King Fisher went up the Sound after a vessel from Sea, and sent her Barge with 16 men on shore at Branford. A number of people collected and cut her off, & took the barge with the people.2
1. Ford, comp. & ed., Correspondence and Journals of Samuel Blachley Webb, 3 vols. (New York, 1893), I, 82, 83. Hercafter cited as Ford, comp. & ed., Webb Papers.
2. Neither barge nor crew was taken. See Connecticut Gazette, July 14, 1775.
