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Eyewitness My father was a sergeant in the militia and protecting the ford at Pike's Cantonment on the Saranac River. His company guarded the ford all day. The British did not know they were there, but they did pretty quick when they tried to cross. The woods was thick and the big trees and bushes came right down to the water on the other side, they shot them right down. Some of them dropped in the stream and was carried away by the current. Captain Dixon, he was captain of the company, was hit right on the brass plate on his sword belt where it crossed his heart. I made a big dent, I seen it myself. Benjah Phelps, age 11
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