Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-08-25
From the ynchburg Vrginian.
REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE

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REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE.
Some weeks ago, the feelings Of The cilizens
Of his place were considerably excited by the
discovery, fh,l f. male child, aged about |
or 10, a Stranger, and residing with Mr.. and
Mrs. Barres likewise Strangers, who had re-
Gently migrated to this place from Buff.io, IN.
" FAD been much malreated. The affair
mmedialel, underwent an examination before
magistrate, and MIR. aud Mrs. B. were bound
over 20 answe, for the imputed offence. The
accoun. they gave Of the child was tina, her
uam, was Eliza Ann Hendershot- her
ia, he was a ,rif1iug man-and THAI, in conse
uurnce the girl had been bound to them; this
statement has been satisfactorily confirmed by
the production of the indenture, by the certih
cafes of The Mayor of Buffalo and the Clerk II
me Court. and by the acknowledgment Of
Hendsrshot himself. There can be no doubt,
therefore, hat the child was properly obtained
! by Mr.. Barnes.
The little girl, herself was SO yaseWRgo Yb Pse
circums ances She does recolIect; however,
that STE was not always called by the name Of
Elsa finn, bu' formerly by The name Of Susan.
In the me an time, IN examining the wounds of
| the girl. several marks were discovered, cor.
responding With similar marks belonging TO a
child named Susan AHen. who was either kid
mapped or lost in the streets of New York,
about seven years ago, aud described by her
mother, in an advertisement. This discovery
induced several gentlemen to inform Mrs. Al
len Of the circumstances, by letter. who for>
warded, in reply, several interrogatories, to
which she wished the child 10 respond. The
replies, we believe, were not conclusive, bui they
were so satisfactory as to induce Mrs. Allen
TO come OH Immediately, and she arrived here
last Saturday evening. She then mentioned
another mark, on The child's head, which she
had not made known in the advertisement. -
On Sunday morning, an interview took place
brtween them. Mrs. A. searched first, for the
mark on the head, which she found, and imme-
diately became so overpowered by her feelings
as 10 be unable, for some time, 10 prosecute the
examination. Every other mark was found to
correspond; and Mrs. A. has no doubt tina, she
has disc overed her los child. This ia the ele.
venth she has visited in all the other cases,
she was at once decided in her opinion, that
the children exhibited were no, hers. In this
case, she is SO confident that il is, that she wish
es 10 take the girl with her home; though she
would not like 10 swear 10 its identity.
1t now remains for Mr.. Henderson, to &C
coun, for the manner in which he obtained il.
Mrs Allen states that her child was los, during
the year that the yellow fever prevailed in New
York; that she was sent on an GRAND TO neigh.
boris, whittier she went, but that she had never
been seen or heard Of afterwards. If this be
Mrs. Aliens daughter, OF which we have little
doubt, II is possible, that, in the confusion of
the crowd she lost her way home and could
give no directions where il could be found, and
that Mr.. Henderson, took her to his house and
gave her his own name The mere fact of
PERSONS conserving 10 bind 10 another female |
of the tender age Of This little girl show. an
absence of parental feeling, which gives some
show of colour 10 the supposi,ion tina, such is
The fact; and, if so, it is a mysterious chain of
events which has thus reunited a parent and
her child, separated under such circum,,snces
and by such long space of time and distance