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from visiting my mother, who had broken her leg during the day. When I arrived where my men were, they appointed me captain, but on an enumeration I found to my amazement that they had all left but twenty-two." Nothing daunted, Captain Stewart marched on and met no opposition until they came to the Town line of Chinguacousy. where there was a chopping bee. and the choppers rushed on the patriots with their axes, but when they heard the click of muskets, they retired and allowed them to pass unmolested. The ardor of the men soon began to cool and after going a short distance further, all but five had returned home. Stewart, Kilburne, Hilton. Donald Campbell and Wm. Robertson, John Stewart 3