Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-04-14

OTk. t1lS WIG WIS lnIneulately Killed.
The old gentleman and his daughter were
preserved by Little Aaron. Chief of the
Oquago branch of the Mohawks. MIS-
Wells was also a daug liter of Mr. Dunlop
Little Aaron led him out from the house,
lettering with age, and stood beside him TO
protect him. An Indian passing by pulled
his hat from his head, and ran away with il
the Chief pursued him, and regained it ~
on his return, another Indian had carried |
away his wig the rain was falling upon
bis bare head, while his whole system shook |
like an aspen, under the combined influence !
of age fear and cold. He was released
few days AFTER but the shock was too VIC
lent he died about year after.
A MIR Mitchell, who was in his field, be-
held party of Indians approaching he
could not gain bis house, and was obliged 20
flee to the woods. Here he evaded pursuit
and escaped A melancholy spectacle pre-
sented itself on his return-it was the corpse
of his wife and four children. His house
had been plundered and set on fire. He ex
| tinguished the fire, and by examination
found life still existing in one Of his chill
dren, a little girl ten or twelve years of age.
He raised her up and placed her in the door,
and was bending over her when he saw a
mother party approaching He had barely
time to hide himself behind log fence near
by, before they were at the house From
this hiding place, be beheld an infamous to-
ry by the name of Newbury. extinguished
the little spark Of life which remained in his
child, with a blow OF his Ratchet The
next day, without a single human being to
assist him, he carried the remains Of his
family down to the fort on a sled, and there
the soldiers aided him in depos,ing them in
a common grave. Retributive justice some
times follows close upon the heels of crimes
This tory was arrested, as spy the follow
ing summer by order Of Gen James Gin
ton when he lay with his army at Canajo.
barrie, on the Mohawk river Mr. Mitchell
was called TO prove this act Hewas found
guilty by court martial. and with com
panon suffered an ignominious death.
Many others were killed some few es-
capped to the Mohawk river, and the remain
der were made prisoners. Thirty-two ofthe
inhabitants, principally women and children,
were killed, and sixteen continental soldiers.
The terror Of the scene was increased by
, the confagration OF all tho houses and out.
. houses in the settlement; the barns were
many Of them filled with hay and grain.
When the enemy approached on the morn
ing OF the lib, Mrs Clyde. the wife Of Col
Clyde, collecting together her children, fled
into the woods. During that day and the
following night, she lay with her children
one Of whom was an infant gathered around
her, and concealed under a large log. AS
: we have before mentioned, it was cold
, rainy day, and the storm continued through
! the night She could hear the yeIls OF the
q savages as they triumphed in their work o.
= death; several OF them passed near where
= she lay, and one so near, that the but OF hi'
; gun trailed upon the log which covered her
4 AT the intercesson Of her husband, who wa.
a in the fort, party sailed out the following
. morning, and at the risk of their lives
. brought her and her children into the fort
: they were drenched with rain, and stifenel
: with the cold but they all survived. MIR,
= Clyde, at the time of her flight, had missed
her eldest daughter, about ten years of age
: and supposed she had gained the fort whel
!, she arrived at the fort on the morning of tn
. 18th, this daughter appeared in the neigh
= boring field. When she saw the sentnels
~ who had wrapped themselves in blankets
n she supposed them 10 be Indians, and agai
" fled to the woods she was followed an
a brought back to the anxious mother. Whe
- fleeing from the house she had separate
y, from the rest OF the family, and had lai
4 concealed alone. until her appearance in tn
IT, field The sufierings OF such a child, i
;s such night, thinly clad, alone in the woods
i must have been of the most excruciatin
"a nature,
Several attacks were made during the da
10 upon the fort, but without success.
n The principal part Of the enemy. wit
e. the prisoners, between thirty and forty, il
" GLIDING several Of the officers Of the ga
Is, rison. encamped the first night in the valley
is about two miles south OF the fort. To tn
tn prisoners it was a night Of wretchednes
I'd never 10 be forgotten. A large fire wa
he kindled around which they were collecte'
is with no shelter not even in most cases a
e. outer garment 10 protect them from tn
ht storm. There might be seen the old, an
infrm, and the middle aged of both sexe
is and ''shivering childhood, houseless, but f
ofI mothers arms, couchless but for mother
n. breast"
n On the morning Of the second day, th
IT. prisoners were called together, and it we
N, decided to send back the women and chi
m dren, decision which kindled up hope an
m life anew in their bosoms. This was a
ed cordingly done but Mrs Campbell and be
of four children, and Mrs Moore and her chi
ed dren, whose husbands had been active part
ed cans, were retained. 1t was at the san
le- time told to them, that they must accomp
lis Inv their captors to the land of the Seneca