The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-09-24
DIED.

III Inis Town, sept. q, EheneZer w, Youngest
child OF Mr.. Cha's. VI. Deland, aged i months.
In FItchburg, Sept IL Levi Adams, only son
of Mr.. Asa P. Cowdin, aged years.
In Sutton, Sept. ID, Mrs. Mary, wife of Mr.
Oren Brown of Macon, (Georgia,) and daugh-
ter of Mr.. Isaac King, aged 23.-Sept. 10, Mr.
John Sherman
In West Boylston, Sept. 8, Mr.. Henry K.
Holt, aged 40. He was confined to his bed 3
years and 10 months, caused by fall which in
jured his back bone SO as to deprive him of
feeling below his breast, which he bore with
great patience and true resignation to the will
Of God = Communicated.
In Sterling Sept. Z, Mr. Oliver Moore, aged
H<-Printers in Ohio are requested to insert
this death.
In southbridge, Sept. l, widow Lydia Walker,
In Harvard, Mrs. Mary, wife of Mr.. Isaac
Whitney, aged 53.-Mr. Gulford Dudley, late
of Boston.
In West Boylston, Mrs Rachel, wife of Mr..
Peter Goodale, aged 62-Warren Rice, ag. 49,
In Leicester, Aug 10, Martha Elizabeth, aged
Z years, daughter of Mr.. Aaron Morse.
In Athol, Sept. 10, Harriet, daughter of Capt
Francis Twiche, aged 8 years Maria. only
child of Maj. Gideon Sibley, aged years.
In New Bedford, Mrs Elizabeth, wife of Mr..
David Kempton, aged IS.
In Calais, (Me) Mr.. Cyrus Jones, formerly
of Phllipston.
In Orange, (vt) Sept. 10, Mrs. Perthenia,
wife of Mr.. David White of Grafton, AIRED "a.
In Alstead. IN. H } Sept 10, Cha's. Wheeler,
Jr., aged 10. His death, says the Keene SEN
tinel, was the consequence Of one of those once
indispensable, but truly ridiculous appendages
OF training or MUSTER. sham fight, The
artillery ana infantry were in close action and
so near that the waddng (ofgrass) of the piece of
artillery terribly fractured the skull of Wheeler
who was in the ranks of the infantry. He lived
but about one hour and half
In Winchester, IN. H. Aug. %, Capt. Sim
con Wheelock, aged Al years.
In Gilsum, IN. H. Sept 8, Mr.. Jedediah
Carpenter, aged 90. Mr.. c. had been unwell
about month, and on the day of his death, he
went out of the house, and on his return, while
IN the act OF hanging up his hat fell back and
died instantaneously
In Dummerston, (Vt) Aug. %. Mrs. Marpa-
ret, wife of Mr.. Samuel Rider, aged "a.
In Oxford, Aug. 80, Mr.. Peter Shumway,
aged 49, At the time of his decease he was
the Oldest person in the town.
Mr. Shumway was born in the year 1875,
served in the French war through the years 1855
and 1888, and was at the taking of Ticonderoga
and Crown Point. During the Revolutionary
war, he kept tavern at the place where he
died, on Johnson's plain, about a mile South of
the centre of Oxford At that period, Shum.
ways tavern was on the line of communication
between Boston and New York, and enioyed
large share of custom from the travellers that
passed to and from the army The wife of Mr..
Shumway, who died not long since, at an ad-
vanced age, was Levlns, and great-grand
daughter OF that Levlns who was murdered with
johnson or Jeanson and his family, by the Indi-
in In lr HoIn e
French Protestants who first settled the town
of Oxford, this Levins, upon the authority of a
certificate under the hand of Gov. Stouphton
and others, is called EUans a mistake, perhaps,
worth correcting, as the name of Levins is,
with pious regard, still retained in the family of
Mr.. Shumway. The circumstances of the mas
sacre OF Levins and Jeanson and his three chill
dren, as learnt by Mr. Shumway, from his wife's
ancestors, are substantially like those related
by DIR. Holmes in his valuable Memoir above
referred to. Levins belonged to Kingly, Conn
On the evening of the massacre, Aug 25, 1896,
he was travelling from Killngly to Boston. He
had put up at Jeanson's, and while sitting in
the house it was beset by the Indians and Le-
wins was shot through the window While the
Indians were despatching Levins and Jeanson's
children, Mrs. Jeanson made her escape through
a back door and fled towards Woodstock, hopino
to meet her husband who had gone to that place
to mill. But she escaping by one path and her
husband unfortunately returning by another,
he, without any notice of the massacre, rode I'D
to his door, and at the instant he was expectinG
the salutations of his wife and children, was
shot by the Indians from his horse. This Incl.
dent in the history of the town of Oxford, as
related by Mr.. Shumway, is the more interest
ing. as it was the occasion of the abandonment
of the French settlement in that ancient town.
which had been commenced as early as 1856.
The traces of the cellar where Jeanson's house
stood, are still distinctly to be seen near the
house where Mr.. Shumway lived and died. 1t
is marked by small heap of stones, on the
southeast side of beautiful grove of pines on
Johnson's plain, which must have been noticed
by every person who has passed on the road
from Oxford to South Oxford. These facts
were communicated by Mr.. Shumway, with a
distinctness Of recollection, which produced the
conviction that he must, in his day, have been
man of observation and intelligence; and all
who have known him will accord to him the
character of an honest man and good citizen.
His posterity constitute one of the largest fam
lies in the foun of n ford -