[27] They were, besides Wells, Robert Huston, Francis McBride, and William Humphrey, of McClaughry's regiment, and John Brooks, of Woodhull's. Abel Wells sickened and died in the Provost, Dec. 13, 1777. Benjamin Goldsmith and Garret Miller, worthy residents of Smith's Clove in Orange County, deserve notice in this connection. Goldsmith had a valuable horse stolen by Claudius Smith's gang, and some of his neighbors sustained similar losses. Finally a party went out in pursuit of the robbers, but some, including Goldsmith and Miller, fell into the hands of the British, and were sent to the Provost, where both died of smallpox, Miller on the memorable 6th of October, and Goldsmith on the 20th of October, 1777. Goldsmith was the father of Daniel, who was the father of the present Mr. Daniel Goldsmith, of Bloomingrove, and of the late David Goldsmith, of Schuyler Co., N. Y. [28] This kindness was repaid a dozen years later (1790) when Mr. Van Arsdale and his wife took Mr. Day's eight year old motherless daughter to nurture as their own, they having been bereft the year previous of their three young children, though seven more were given them afterwards. And Mary Day, (whose father died Oct. 19, 1802, aged 49), remained with them till her marriage to William Hutchings, the father of Mr. John Hutchings, of Norwalk, Ct. Amiable woman, pure and artless as a child, and to sum up her life in a word, filling her humble sphere with perfect fidelity,--among the happier days of the writer's boyhood were those spent in summer recreations at her modest home at Cow Bay, with the mill pond and Squire Mitchell's old red grist mill, and Uncle Billy's cooperage near it, and around the bluff the broad sandy beach, as rambling ground; your pardon, indulgent reader, if thoughts of the past do force a tear. [29] LIST OF THE AMERICANS who were made prisoners at Forts Montgomery and Clinton, Oct. 6, 1777. OFFICERS. Col. William Allison. Lt. Col. James McClaughry. Lt. Col. Jacobus Bruyn. Lt. Col. William Livingston. Major Samuel Logan, 5th Regt. Major Stephen Lush, Brigade Major to Gen. George Clinton. Major Daniel Hamil, Brigade Major to Gen. James Clinton. Major Zachariah Dubois, Woodhull's Regt. Capt. Henry Godwin, 5th Regt. Capt. James Humphrey, McClaughry's Regt. Capt. Lt. Cornelius Swartwout, Lamb's Artillery. Capt. Lt. Ephraim Fenno, Lamb's Artillery. Lieut. Solomon Pendleton, 5th Regt. Lieut. Paton Jackson, 5th Regt. Lieut. John Furman, 5th Regt. Lieut. Henry Pawling, 5th Regt. Lieut. Ebenezer Mott, 5th Regt. *Lieut. Alexander McArthur, 5th Regt. Lieut. Samuel Dodge, 5th Regt. Lieut. John Hunter, McClaughry's Regt. Lieut. Benjamin Halstead, Allison's Regt. Lieut. Henry Brewster, Allison's Regt. Ensign Abraham Leggett, 5th Regt. Ensign John McClaughry, 5th Regt. Ensign Henry Swartwout, 5th Regt. Adj. Dep. Qr. Mr. Gen. Oliver Glean. Qr. Master Nehemiah Carpenter. Capt. James Gilliland, Director of Ordnance.