Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-09-07

DR.. Edward Eggleston's profusely illus
trated paper in the September Century on
Indian War in the Colonies recounts the
following exploits "Stories of marvel
Gus and ingenious escapes were the romance
of the colonies and such adventures date
back to the earliest Indian war in Virginia,
where man and his wife, who had been
spared in the wholesale slaughter, found
their opportunity while the Indians were dane
ing for Joy over the acquisition OF white
mans boat that had drfted ashore. These
captives got into q canoe, and soon afterward
surprised their friends in the settlements,
who had believed them TO be dead. Very
like this was the escape of Anthony Bracket
and his wife in Maine. They were left to
follow on after their captors, who were eager
to reach plunderng party in time TO share
in the spoil Brackets wife found broken
bark canoe, which she mended with needle
and thread the whole family then put to sea
in this Tickety craft, and at length reached
Black Point, where they got on board YES.
| sci. A little lad of eleven years named
EAmes, taken in Philips war, made his way
| thirty miles or more to the settlements. Two
| sons of the famous Hannah Bradley, previ-
ously mentioned, effected an ingenious es-
| cape lying all the first day in hollow log
| and using their provisions to make friends
| with the dogs that had tracked them. They
! iourneyei in extreme peril and suffering for
| nine days, aud one of them fell down with
exhaustion Just as they were entering white
settlement. young girl in Massachusetts,,
after three weeks of captivity, made bride
of bark, and catching horse rode all night
through the woods to Concord. Mrs. Dean,
| taken at Oyster River in 1854, was left, with
her daughter, in charge of an old Indian
while the rest finished their work of destruc
ton. The old fellow asked his prisoner
what would cure q pain in his head. She
recommended him to drink some rum taken
from her house This put him TO sleep, and
the woman and child got away. Another
down-east captive with the fitting name oi
Toogood while his captor during an attach
on a settlement was disentangling piece O.
string with which to tie him, jerked the Indi
ans gun from under his arm and leVehng !
at his head, got safely away.
Escaping captives endured extreme hard
ships. One Bard, taken in Pennsylvania
lived nine days on a few buds and four snakes
Mrs. Inglis captured in the valley of Nir
ginia, escaped in company with German
from place far down the Ohio river Ante
narrowly avoiding discovery and recapture
they succeeded in ascending the south banI
of the Ohio for some hundreds OF miles
When within few days travel OF settle
ments, they were so reduced by famine tina
the German WOmhni euIhBUu 'het oHo Ia
been persuaded to desert the Indian hsst
pots, and erazed with hunger, made an III
successful attack on her companion with can
nibal intentions.
, "The most famous of all the escapes G
New England oaptives was that of Hanna
Duston, Mary NeG, and boy, samuel Leor
r ardson These three we're carried OF, wit
, many others, in 1897, in the attack on Have
hill, Mrs. Duston's infant child having bee
3 killed by the Indians. When the oapto
! had separated, the party to whom the tw
! women and the boy were assigned enoampe
r on an island in the Merrmac river. AT mi'
night the oaptiyes secured hatchets and kill6
p ten Indians-two men, two women, and 8
. children-one favorite boy, whom they meal
to spare and one badly wounded woman, Q
/ Gaping. After they had left the camp, Il
3 fugitives remembered that nobody in the Be
Elements would believe without eyidenc
u that they had performed so redoubtable
s action; they therefore returned and scalp'
/, the Indians, after which they scuttled all Il
: canoes on the island but one, and in this {
r capped down the Merrimao, and finally reach
Haverhill. This was such an exploit as ma
d the actors famous in that bloody time. Il
!, Massachusetts, general court gave Mrs. d.