The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-06-01
ADVENT BRES OF
TWO 8R LAVE MEN.
INCIDENT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

INCIDENT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
In the year 1880, while the war was
still vigorously prose between Great
Britain and her North American colonies,
a number of markabie and painful oc>
currences, arising out of this dispute, took
place on the border of Canada and the re-
volted districts. Among those eve ents, the
following, which is abridged by writer
in The North American Review, from
Stones Life of Brandt, may convey TO
our readers an idea of the sufferings to
which the people are exposed during
period ef civil war:
"Old Mr.. Sammons, with three sons
and one or more daughters, lived upon the
old johnson estate, which had been se-
questered. Sampson Sammons, the father,
was sturdy old whig (American), and
we'll known TO the British commander,
Sir John -, whom he often talked with
about the rebellion. His sons, Frederick,
Jacob, and Thomas, the youngest eigh-
teen at the time of which we write, were
much of the same mind and body-young
Simpsons, knotty and fearless. Sir John
-, knowing their characters, thought
he would catch them alive and take them
to Canada so he sent his Indians out of
| the way, and by good management, cap
tured the whole race early IN the morning
! without a blow. The old man and his
buys were at once bound and marched off
IN The direction OF Canada, though but y
little way. That night, the youngest boy,
by the aid OF the vile of British officer,
| tn nd he
ing, the father, having procured an inter-
view with the Tory chief, read him such
lecture upon the ingratitude of thus
treating one who had formerly stood by
him, and upon the iniquity of his conduct
generally, that he too was set free, and a
span oil his horses returned to him. But
| Frederick and Jacob were less fortunate.
and were taken to the fortress of Cham
blee, just within Canada, between Lake
Champlain and the ST Lawrence. At
that post there were about seventy pris.
oners, and not a very strong garrison 30
that the first thing to which the youag
Simpsons made up their mind was an es,
cape. Finding, however, their fellow cap
Iives indisposed to de anything for them
selves, Frederick and Jacob determined to
act without the rest and, accordingly.
the first time they were taken out of the
fort together, TO assiat in some common
service, they sprang from the ranks at a
concerted signal, and put as the phrase
is in the West. The guards started, but
less feet of foot, could not catch them /;
aud though Jacob fell and sprained his
ankle, he managed, under cover of the
smoke produced by the gun shots made at
them, 10 hide himself in a cIunp of
bushes, which his pursuers did not think
of searching. 1t had been agreed previ-
ously between the brothers, that, in case
of separation, they were to meet at a
known spot at ten o'clock at night
Jacob, the lame one, mistook the hour,
and having gone te the spot and not find>
ing his brother there, he left it, with the
intention of getting as far from the fort
as possible before daylight, his accident
making time especially important to him.
He accordingly pushed up the western
bank of the Sosel river towards Lake
J ChamplaiG, intending to swim it just be-