Life of Count Rumford. 141 



An inhabitant of Stamford, Connecticut, reported 

 that 



" On December i he was at Huntington, passing for an 

 inhabitant, and passed within four rods of the front of the fort 

 which faces the north. It is about five rods in front, with a 

 gate in the middle ; it extends a considerable distance north and 

 south : the works were altogether of earth, about six feet high, 

 no pickets or any other obstruction of the works, except a sort 

 of ditch which was very inconsiderable, some brush-like small 

 trees fixed on the top of the works in a perpendicular form ; 

 he was told it encompassed near two acre? of ground. It is 

 built on a rising ground, and takes in the burying-ground ; the 

 meeting house they have pulled down. The troops consist of 

 Thompson's regiment, the remains of the Queen's Rangers, and 

 the Legion, being five hundred and fifty effectives. They are 

 quartered as compact as possible in the inhabitants' houses and 

 barns, and some hutted along the sides of the fort, which makes 

 one side of the hut. The inhabitants of Huntington do suffer 

 exceedingly from the treatment they receive from the troops, 

 who say the inhabitants of that county are all rebels, and there- 

 fore they care not how they suffer." 



There is one other sharp historical criticism in our 

 Revolutionary literature relating to Colonel Thompson, 

 a reference to which will close our account with him in 

 his military career against his native country. 



It will have been observed in the extracts made above, 

 that the corps commanded by him is described as made 

 up in part of " the remains of the Queen's Rangers." 

 The corps of Hussars known under that name through 

 the war was at first wholly composed of American 

 loyalists, raised mostly in Connecticut and the neigh- 

 borhood of New York, and was especially odious to 

 the patriots. Its largest force, at its most flourish- 

 ins fortunes, was about four hundred men. Captain 



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