"The following incident in the lives of George and Sallie Stewart [redacted] has been handed down: During the Revolutionary War, while he was at home on leave, the English soldiers came to his house late one night and knocked on the door. Mistress Sallie asked what they wanted, and they demanded that she make a light and let them in. She told them that she did not have anything with which to make a light and to go away as there was no one there but herself and children. They threatened to break into the house if she did not make a light. She advised her husband to put on her dress over his clothes and try to escape in that manner, she telling the Tories that she would have to go and get some pine with which to make a light. George escaped from the house in that way, but dropped the dress as he reached the smokehouse, when the Tories started firing at him but did not hit him, twelve shots going into the corner of the smokehouse. He escaped by outrunning them through a marsh, and later joined his company. He was said to have been a brave soldier and came near losing his life on several occasions."