Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1840-03-27
AccouNT or REGINA

n, ACCOUNT OF REGINA.
A little girl Of Wurfemburg, icho tpas carried
dpdy from her mother, By the Sdudges in
North Americd, and after nine years alb
sence, restored to her. Taken from a mar
Tatipe, written in Danish, by Pastyr Roane,
of Eisinore.
Many years ago, several German families
lefttheir country and settled in North Amer
lea. Amongst these was a man from Wur-
temburg who. with his wife and a large lam
lily. established himself in Pennsylvania
There were no churches or schools then in
that neighborhood. and he was obliged to be
satisfied with keeping the Sabbath at home
with his family. and ins.ruc,ing them him.
sell TO read the Bible and pray TO God. He
used very often TO read the Bible to them.
and always used first to say, "Now. nv
children be still and listen to what | am GO
ing to read. for it is God who speaks to US
in this book" In the year 1854. dreadful
war broke out in Canada between the French
and the English. The Indians took the side
OF the French. and made excursions as far as
Pennsy vania, where they plundered and
burned the houses they came to, and murder
ed the people. In 1855. they reached the
dwelling ofthe poor family from Wurem-
burg. while the wife and one Of the sons
were gone to mill few miles distant, to
get some corn ground. The husband, the
eldest son. and two liule girls, named Bar
bara and Regina, were a, home. The father
and his son were instantly killed by the saw.
ages, but they carried the two little girls a.
way into captivity with great many other
children. who were taken in the same man
ner They were led many miles through
woods and thorny bushes. that nobody might
follow them In this condition they were
bfough to The habitaiions OF the Indians. who
divided amongst themselves all the children
whom they had taken captives. Barbara
was ut this time ten years old, and Regina
nine Il was never known what became Of
Barbara: but Regina. with a little girl Of
two years old, whom she had never seen be-
fore. were given to an old widow. who was a
very cruel woman. Her only son lived with
her and maintained her. but he was some
times from home for weeks together. and
then these poor little children wore forced TO
go into the forests to gather roots and other
provisions for the old woman. and when
they did not bring her enough to eat she
would beat them in SO cruel manner, that
they were near being killed. The little girl
always kept close 10 Regina, and when she
knet down under tree, and repeated those
prayers 10 the Lord Jesus, and those hymns
which her father had taught her. then the
little girl prayed with her. and learned the
hymns and prayers by heart. In this mel
ancholy Estate Of slavery, these children re-
manned nine long years. till Regina reached
the age Of nineteen. and her little companion
was eleven years old They were both fine
looking girls. particularly Regina. While
captives, their hearts seemed always TO have
been drawn towards what was good Regi-
ma continually repeated the verses from the
Bible, and the hymns which she had learned
when at home. and she had taught them 10
the little girl They often used to cheer
each other with one hymn from the hymn
book used at Halle. in Germany "Alone,
vet not alone am /, though 10 this solitude so
drear" They constantly hoped that the
Lori Jesus would. sometime, bring them
back TO their Christian friends In 1864
their hope was realized The merciful pro.
videaes(6f God broughtthe English Colonel
Bouquet to the place where they were ~
captivity. He conquered the Indians. and
forced shemio ASK for peace The ilrss con-
dition he made was that they should, restore
aIIshe prisoners they had taken Thus the
two poor girls were released. More than
400 CO ptives were brought 70 Celonel Bon
duet. II WAS a woful sight 20 seeNso many
Young people wretched and d'stfessd The
Colonel and his soldiers gave them io,d and
clothes. and Colonel Bouquet brougn'Nem
alto town called Carlisle. and pno',sed
"a The Pennsylvania newspapefs, that ~ Y!
rents, who had LOST their children, mlgn'
come 70 this place. and in case ct their nna,
inc them. they should be restored 70 them. -
ipo ~. 4.