 One by one, they were set ablaze. In all 19 houses and 22 stores and barns were burned to the ground by the British. This is a list of what was destroyed. 4,000 barrels of beef and pork, 100 large containers of biscuits, 90 barrels of rice, 120 bottles of rum, 30 bottles of wine, several large stores where bulk quantities of wheat, oats, and Indian corn were being stored.