Metz, Clinton E. [Untitled]. Long Island Graphic and Roosevelt Press. March 20, 1975, 7. Accessed July 18, 2024. https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=ligr19750320-01.1.19.
Discusses the rumored poison plot on George Washington. Warrant issued for 34 Tories in Valley Stream area. Skirmish at Watts' Millpond. Two fugitives escaped to Hungry Harbor to board the British ship Asia. The article also mentions Captain Richard Hewlett as being a Loyalist and having munitions stored on his property.
On July 11, 1780, the British ship Glatea ran ashore near Hog Island [Island Park]. The damaged bilged forced the men aboard the ship to jump overboard and swim ashore. These mem included:
| Richard Green | Ezekiel Raynor | Isaac Smith |
| John Mott | Reuben Pine | Joseph Smith |
| Joseph Mott | Benjamin Palmer | Abe Southard (wounded) |
| Joseph Rainer | W.R. Smith | Elijah Raynor |
| Amos Shaw |
After a six-hour skirmish with Patriots, 26 more members of the Hempstead South Militia came as reinforcements:
| Lt. McKain* | W. Pearsall | Barnabas Smith |
| James Denton | David Pine | Israel Smith |
| Stephen Powell | W. Johnson | Samuel Johnson |
| Abraham Simonson | William Pettet | James Pettet |
| James Southard | Elijah Cornwall | Reuben Jackson |
| Elijah Hadley | --------- Venson (a refugee) | Morris Green |
| M. Demott (a trooper) | Thomas Burtis (a trooper) | William Burtis |
| Joseph Dorlon | Joshua Pettet | Uriah Seaman |
| Alex Dunlap** |
*an officer on half pay
** Commanded a boat with this part in it, is a North Briton, and a loyal Refugee, who bravely joined the militia of Loyal Queens, with whom the rebel crew capitualted.
Source:
Onderdonk, Henry. Documents and Letters Intended to Illustrate the Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County; with Connecting Narratives, Explanatory Notes, and Additions. Leavitt, Trow and Company: New York, 1846. Accessed December 13, 2024. https://archive.org/details/documentsletters00onde_0/page/n201/mode/2up?q=raynor.
Hewlett family
Mott family
Pearsall family
Ludlow family
Clowes family
Denton family
Daniel Kissam
Thomas Hicks
Captain Richard Hewlett
Isaac Denton
Justice Samuel Clowes
Gabriel G. Ludlow
Gilbert Van Wyck
Captain Jacob Mott
Thomas Cornell
Captain Charles Hicks
Samuel Clowes
George Weeks
John Townsend
Dr. Samuel Martin
Daniel Kissam, Jr.
Benjamin Kissam
Stephen Hewlett
Joseph Beagle
Thomas Hicky
Timothy Clowes
Isaac Smith
George Ryarson
James Smith
John Hewlett
George D. Ludlow
John Willet
Whitehead Hicks
Thomas Wooley
George Smith
Justice Joseph Bedell
Nathan Smith
Daniel Smith
Benjamin Pettit
Jeremiah Bedel
Townsend Weeks
Josiah Martin
Elizabeth Hicks
Joshua Mills
Sheriff Thomas Willet
Judge Thomas Jones
Benjamin Lester
Benjamin Hewlett
David Brooks
Joseph Greswold
Dr. Adam Seabury
Samuel Langdon
Whitehead Cornell
Richard Townsend
Brigadier General Oliver De Lancey
Colonel Gabriel Ludlow
Dr. Tredwell
Justice Smith
Captain Seaman
Thorne family
Emory Hewlett
George Duncan Ludlow
John Kissam
Joseph Thorne
Stephen Thorne
Thomas Thorne
Hewlett Townsend
Samuel Seabury
James Peters
Thomas Wooley
Thomas Seaman
Stephen Pearsall
Thomas Pearsall
Thomas Smith
Daniel Ketcham
James Ketcham
Abel Southard
Daniel Baldwin
Samuel Washborne
Thomas Spragg
William Peters
Malark Thorne
Uriah Pearsall