 The British set up lookouts, or pickets, at roads leading into Danbury. Farmers from the countryside creeped as close as reasonably possible and took shots at those picket guards, but none were wounded. There's one interesting story, though, about a very physically strong man named Porter who was walking towards Danbury when he came across several guard pickets. They told him to halt. He said, what for? They said, you are a prisoner, he replied. Well, I guess not, as he continued walking towards them.