“The firing grew heavier … many ran out of their houses to speak with us, women distressed for their husbands, sons, and brothers, fearing that they would fall in battle … But oh what a dreadful night! We could see at seven miles distant, the light of the devouring flames by which the town was reduced to ashes.”
From The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America by Joy Day Buel & Richard Buel Jr., available for reference in the Research Library at the Fairfield Museum and History Center.
Silliman House, 506 Jennings Road, Fairfield. Built in 1756.