Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-25

FAMOUS ESCAPES Fkom INDIANS.


DR.. Edward Eggleston, in the Century
on "Indian War in the Colonies, recountB
the following exploits Stories Of mar
yelous and ingenious escapes were the TO-
nance of the colonies, and such adven-
sures date back to the earliest Indian war
in Virginia, where a man and his wife,
who had been spared in the wholesale
slaughter, found their opportunity while
the Indians were dancing tor Joy over the
acquisition Of a white mans boat that had
drifted ashore. These captives got into
canoe, and soon afterwsrd surprised their
frisTfs in the settlements, who had be-
heved them to be dead. Very like
shis 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 q plunderjng
party il time to share IN the spoil Braek-
cts wife found \ broken bark canoe, which
she meuded with . needle and thread the
whole family then put to sea in this rickaty
craft. and at length reached Black Point,
where they got on board vessel. A little
ad Of eleven years, named Eames taken ia
Philips war, made his way thirty miles or
more 20 the settlements Two sons of the
famous Hannah Bradley, previously men.
toned. Effected an Ingenious escape, lying
all the 6rst day in hollow log and using
their provision 60 make friends with the
dogs chat had tracked them. They Jour
neyed IN extre1ns peril and suffering tornine
days and one OF them fell down With exhauE-
zion last as they were entering aw5itese5tie-
ment. a young girl in Massachusetts, after
three weeks CT captivity. MADE BRIDE OF
bark, and catching a horse, rode all night
through the woods 70 Concord. Mrs, Dsau,
taken at Oyster river II 1924, Tss left, with
her daughter, IN charge OF an old Indian
whilethe rest finished 1hsirwDrk of deatruc-
ton. The old fellow asked his prisoner
what would cure a pain in his head She
recommended him to drink come rum taken
from her house. This put him to sleep,
and the woman and child g0t away An
other down-east captive, With the fitting
name OF Toog0od, while lis captor during
an attack On a settlement was discriminating
a piece of string with which 80 tie nm,
jsrksd t1e Indians gun from under ms
arm, and, leYs,iDg it at lie head, got safely
away
Escaping cagtives endured extreme
hardships. Oas Bard, taken in Pennsyl-
vania, lived nine days On q lew buds aa6
valley Of Virginia, escaped in cor paay /
with German Wora@u from place far
down she Ohio river. After narrowly /
avoiding discovery and .ecaptuTe, they /
succeeded Ia ascending the south bank Of /
the Ohio for some hundreds Of miles. /
Wien within a lew days travel Of settle |
ments, they we're 80 reduced by famine /
that the German woman, euraged that /
she had been persuaded to desert the /
Indian aesh.pots, and craGad with hun |
ger. made an rnEuecessful attack on her |
6ith cannihal intentions.
The most famous of all the esearea Of |
New England captives was that OF Hannah +
Dastan, Mary Nef. and a boy, Samuel
Leonardson. These three were carried OF,
with many others, 10 1897. IL the attack
On HaYerhjIl, Mrs. Das5on's infant child
having been killed By the Indians. When
the caDso7s had separated, the party TO
whom the two women and the boy were
assigned encamped on an island in the
Merrimac river. At midnight, the captiVes
secured hatchets and killed ten Indians
Two men. TIVE women, ana siX children
one favorite boy whom they meant to
lpare, and one badly wounded woman,
After they had left the
amp the fugitiyes remembered that
nobody il the settlements would
believe, without evidence, that they had
performed so redoubtabie an action;
hey therefore returned and scslped the
indiana, after which they scustled all the
.anoes on the island bat one, and in this
.scaped down the Msrrimao, and finally
cached HaveIiill. This was such an ez.
,loit % made the actors Immediately
anlous IN that bloody time, The Massa-
huse5ts General Court gave Mrs. Dasson
twenty-five pounds, and granted half that
.monnt TO each of her companions. The
tory OF their daring deed was carried far
o the southwark, and Governor NichOl-
on, of Maryland sent valuable present
- the escaped prlsonera.