August 7th. 1782. About this time an American named Richard Wilgus was shot while keeping guard below Allentown to prevent contraband goods being taken to the British.

In regard to the attack on Capt. Huddy's house the Philadelphia Packet contains some items not mentioned in other accounts. The Packet's statements are as related by Capt. Huddy himself. It says there were seventy-two men attacked him under Lieut. Joseph Parker and William Hewlett about an hour before day. They commenced stoning a window to pieces which aroused Capt. Huddy; the girl helped defend. Mrs. Huddy and another woman tried to induce him to surrender, as they thought defence was useless. Tye who is here called "one of Lord Dunmore's crew," received a wound. After Huddy surrendered, they plundered the house. They were two hours in taking him. Six militia came near and fired and killed their commander. Ensign Vincent and sixteen men of the State regiment attacked them as they embarked and accidentally wounded Huddy; the firing made confusion in the boats and one overset and Huddy swam ashore. This paper says the Refugees "made a silent and shameful retreat with disgrace- two hours for seventy-two men to take one man."

The Refugee town at Sandy Hook was not allowed to remain unmolested by the Americans. Capt. Adam Hyler was continually on the alert seizing their vessels there and taking prisoners, &c.

Of the Pine Robbers such as Fenton, Burke, Fagan, and others, it is not necessary here to speak. Accounts of them are already published in modern works.

April, 1870. About the last of April the Refugees attacked the house of John Holmes, Upper Freehold, and robbed him of a very large amount of Continental money, a silver watch, gold ring, silver buckles, pistols, clothing, &c.

June 1st, 1780. Colonel Tye (Mulatto) with his motley company, twenty blacks and whites, carried off as prisoners, Captain Barney Smock and Gilbert Van Mater, spiked an iron cannon and took four horses. Their rendezvous was said to be Sandy Hook.

About this time Colonel Tye with sixty Refugees attacked Captain Huddy's dwelling at Colt's Neck. (See Hist, Coll. p. 365.)

(The Refugees had a settlement or "town" as it was often called at Sandy Hook.)

October 15th, 1781. A party of Refugees from Sandy Hook landed at night at Shrewsbury and marched undiscovered to Colt's Neck and took six prisoners. The alarm reached the Court House about 4 or 5 o'clock, P. M., and a number of inhabitants, among whom was Dr. Nathaniel Scudder, went in pursuit. They rode to Black Point to try to recapture the six Americans, and while firing from the bank Dr. Scudder was killed.

February 8th, 1782. About forty Refugees under one Lieut. Steelman came via Sandy Hook to Pleasant Valley. They took twenty horses and five sleighs, which they loaded with plunder; they also took several prisoners, viz: Hendrick Hendrickson and his two sons, Peter Covenhoven, Esq., Garret Hendrickson, Samuel Bowne and son, and Jacques Denise. At Garret Hendrickson's a young man named William Thompson got up slyly and went off and informed Captain John Schenck of Colonel Holmes' regiment, who collected all the men he could, to pursue. They overtook and attacked them, and the before mentioned William Thompson was killed, and a Mr. Cottrell wounded. They, however, took twelve Refugees prisoners, three of whom were wounded. But in returning they unexpectedly fell in with a party of sixteen men under one Stevenson, and a sudden firing caused eight of the prisoners to escape. But Captain Schenck ordered his men to charge bayonets and this party of Tories surrendered. Captain Schenck retook nineteen horses and five sleighs, and took twenty-one prisoners; among the latter were several well known atrocious villains. -
(Packet.)

Gov. Robert Hunter, in a letter to the Board of Trade, dated New York, May 7th, 1711, says:

"I am directed by your Lordships to send you my observations on the past in New Jersey during Col. Ingoldsby's administration." After alluding to other matters he refers to an act for building and repairing gaols, and says "by virtue of this act they have designed a Court House in the remotest corner of the county of Monmouth which will be a great tax upon the people of that county and was meer party pique." (Was this at Freehold?)

About the year 1703 Col. Lewis Morris sent a memorial to England for a missionary to be sent to East Jersey, particularly to Shrewsbury. This memorial contained the following items relating to Middletown and Shrewsbury.

"The population of New Jersey (East Jersey?) is about 8,000. Freehold was settled by emigrants from Scotland. Mr. Keith (George), began the first settlement there and made a fine plantation. One-half of the people were Scotch Presbyterians. There is in town a Quaker meeting house but most of the Quakers had seceded with Keith. Shrewsbury, he says, was settled by emigrants from New England and New York. There is in it about thirty Quakers of both sexes and they have a meeting house."

Oldmixon in 1708 says:

"Shrewsbury is the most southern town of the province and reckoned the chief town of the shire. It contains about 160 families; and 30,000 acres of out plantations belong to its division. There is a new town in the county called Freehold, which has not been laid out and inhabited long. It does not contain as yet above forty families."