On the evening of September 27, 1778, Baylor’s Dragoons settled for the night near Overkill, a strategically chosen area near a small bridge and converging roads north toward New York where information could be gathered on British troop movements. The twelve officers stayed in three nearby stone farmhouses belonging to members of the Haring, Blauvelt, and Bogert families, while 104 soldiers slept in six barns along Overkill Road. By one in the morning, “No-Flint” Grey’s troops had killed the guard posted near the bridge, surrounded the barns, and, after removing the flints from their guns and readying bayonets, burst in on the sleeping soldiers. Baylor’s men quickly recognized they could not resist. Although the rules of war called for surrendered troops to receive quarter, eleven of Baylor’s Dragoons were repeatedly stabbed and killed, four more later died, thirty-three were taken prisoner, and the rest escaped into the woods. British soldiers also stormed the house where the officers slept; a British newspaper reported that Baylor and three officers tried to hide in a large Dutch chimney but were found, Major Clough was so badly wounded that he died the next day, and Baylor was bayoneted in the thigh and groin before being captured. On October 6, 1778, the Continental Congress asked New Jersey Governor William Livingston to investigate the treatment of Lieutenant Colonel Baylor and his party, and Livingston in turn had Major General Lord Stirling direct the inquiry through Dr. David Griffith, a thirty-six-year-old physician and chaplain to the 3rd Virginia Brigade, whose survivor affidavits helped frame the event as the “Baylor Massacre.”