 The troops continued to march along Main Street. At the intersection with Mountain Street stood a house belonging to a captain in the colonial militia, Ezra Starr. In that house were four very young men, one of them a black slave. As the British marched by, gunfire rang out from the house. Now, no British soldiers were known to have been killed, but three of the four who shot at the British were killed, and their bodies were left in the house while the British burned it to the ground.