and having many narrow escapes from the pursuing officers and vigilance committee, they hid in a barn in a meadow opposite the Staples Washburn place... on the Oxford Road, to wait for the passing of a severe snow storm. Almost famishing they failed to get provisions at Captain John Wooster's, . . . they started through the deep snow in the night over Great Hill with a view to go to Derby, and from thence escape in a boat to Long Island. Captain Bradford Steele pursued on horseback, but the robbers avoided the road and escaped in a whale boat a little in advance of them.
    "Hoping to overtake them before they got to the Sound, they found them, but failed in this on account of the width of the river near its mouth at Stratford. However, an old sea captain went into the belfry of the church in Stratford, and watched their course to Brookhaven, where lived a noted tory. This being ascertained, a party of thirty patriots gathered at Derby in two whaleboats, and being well armed rowed down the river and across the Sound, captured all the robbers but one, all being found in deep sleep. Graham knew he would have no mercy. Being handed over to the army after returning to Derby, he was tried, found guilty of treason, having deserted the American cause, and was executed in Morristown. Chauncey Judd, broken down and exhausted, was found in the company with the robbers, and was tenderly cared for by his brothers. The other young men and their helpers were yet to suffer.
    "Two were allowed to turn state's evidence; the others suffered fines, or imprisonment, or both. They were sentences to four years' imprisonment in the Newgate state prison. Those persons who aided them were also fined
    The young men who met with Graham in the Whittemore Tavern included Henry Wooster, Jr. and David Wooster, Jr. - both nephews of Capt. John Wooster. These young men went with Graham to the robbery of the Dayton house, and were part of the band which sought to escape from the Patriot Pursuers. It was these Wooster cousins who succeeded in preventing Graham from murdering Judd.
    One of the places they stopped in their flight was the home of David Wooster, Sr., in Gunntown. At this place the young Judd boy was placed in a cellar well room, where he was hidden, while the band considered how best to deal with the lad.