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Thomas Chandler, sons of Joshua Chandler of New Haven, two broth- 
ers of Amos Botsford of the same town, and Daniel Smith of New 
Milford, serving in this capacity.! According to a tradition, which 
carries all of the distinguishing marks of truth, and which one would 
like to believe to be true, it was the intercession of Colonel Fanning, 
who had evidently not forgotten his college days in New Haven, that 
induced Tryon to withhold the torch from the town. It is, at any 
rate, a striking fact that the other places visited by the enemy did not 
escape consignment to the flames. At the same time, it must be 
remarked that the known loyalty of some of the inhabitants of the 
college town did not save them from abuse at the hands of the King’s 
troops. This fact may help to explain the slight response on the part 
of New Haven Tories to the proclamation of Tryon and his naval 
colleague, Sir George Collier, in offering a refuge to the inhabitants of 
Connecticut ‘‘against the distress which . . . broods over all your 
country.” The only families that left the town with the British, so 
far as can be learned, were those of Joshua Chandler and Amos Bots- 
ford (both barristers), and that of Captain Abiather Camp (a mer- 
chant), while either then or soon after one Ogden and his family, who 
kept a coffee house, were compelled to depart, on account of the un- 
popularity they had achieved by their entertainment of British 
soldiers.? | 
When Tryon and his men reached Norwalk, they were re-en- 
forced by a considerable body of Loyalists, who returned with the 
expedition to New York, some with their families, including the Rev. 
John Sayre of Fairfield, the Rev. Jeremiah Leaming, D.D., of Nor- 
walk, and Jonathan Ketchum, a tavern-keeper of the same place, 
together with the latter’s son, Samuel, and his household.f 
In numerous instances throughout the period of flight, fugitives 
could not thus take their wives and children with them; but the 
authorities were not averse as a rule to granting liberty to those left 
behind to follow husbands and fathers within the British lines. For 
example, the families of Nicholas Brown of Hartford, Asa Church of 
Danbury, and Azariah Pritchard of Derby received such permission 

1 MS. Note-book of Archdeacon W. O. Raymond, St. John, N.B.; Townshend, 
Brit. Invasion of New Haven, Conn., 92-94; Sec. Rep., Bur. of Archives, Ont., Pt. 
II, 1904, 785, 867. : 
? Townshend, Brit. Invasion of New Haven, Conn., 24; Papers of New Haven 
Colony Hist. Soc., II, 52, 53, 59, 64, 79, 87; Sec. Rep., Bur. of Archives, Pt. I, 1904, 
80; Pt. II, 785; Rev. Characters of New Haven, 36. 
§ Conn. Quar., IV, 257, 261, Am. Hist. Rev., Jan., 1899, 290; Townshend, Brit. 
Invasion of New Haven, Conn., 42; Sec. Rep., Bur. of Archives, Ont., Pt. I, 1904, 
230, 231, 283. 
