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178 NORWALK.
Island for plunder. Gov. Tryon said, if the people on
this side did not stop that, he would come over and burn
the town ;
and he did burn it.
Nathaniel Raymond, aged 94, May 1, 1847.
lived near the Old Well wharf all his days ;
Has
was a corporal
in the guard ; a revolutionary pensioner ; lay often
on the rocks at Belden's Point ; was at New York
among the Connecticut troops when the British landed
at Flatbush ;
and in the lines across the island after the
British crossed into New York. When the British
came to burn the town, they landed at Fitch's Point
Saturday night. He carried such of his household
effects as he could, down near the pottery called the
village, and hid them in a swamp ; then carried hia
father and mother and some of their effects back some
three miles, in a cart ;
returned, and with fourteen others,
volunteers, under their own command, took arms,
and went up to the hill where John Raymond lived.
In the night the British fired a ball at them, at random.
It struck the ground near them. Sunday morning the
harbor was full of boats.
They landed at the Old Well
chased the fifteen volunteers over John Raymond's hill,
by where Capt. D. K. Nash now lives, and so over to
Round hill ; dragging a field-piece, which they fired at
the volunteers from the top of Round hill. When the
British landed, the volunteers fired at them from John
Raymond's hill. Saw Grummon's Hill " all red" with
the British : there was " old Tryon and all his tribe."
The two parties of the enemy met near Grummon's
Hill, and went up to France Street, where was a skirmish.
There were about thirty American Regular soldiers
in town. Jacob Nash (the grandfather of Capt.