Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-09-14

, -" "'counts, Dut not StatlnR I'll
amounts, was printed and exhibited il
me Chancery offices, with the followin
highly satisfactory result, that many per
sons came forward and preferred thei
claims, and about one-half of the stoc
supposed to be unclaimed was transferre
out OF court to successful claimants.
our FOremOthers as Indian Fighters.
From DR.. Eggleston's Paper in the septembe
| Century
The women of those times developed
readiness and courage as remarkable n
that of the men. The Swedish wome,
near the site of Philadelphia, while boil
: ing soap, were warned that the Indian
were coming. They took refuge, soal
and ALL i'll tho fortified church, blew
conch-shell horns to alarm the men, ant
when the Indians tried to undermine the
building ladled the scalding soap upor
them, and so saved themselves from des
tructlon until their husbands arrived. The
renowned Hannah Bradley of Haverhil
In Massachusetts, who had more than hel
share Of captivities and adventures, killed
an Indian who was rushing into the oper
gate of her husbands garrison by throw.
ing boiling soap upon him and wher
the savages came to capture her third
time she saved herself by shooting the
foremost one dead. In 1876, the battle
which Talcott was fighting in defense OF
Hadley was decided by the promptness
of the women, who loaded with small
shot and nails cannon that had Just ar.
rived from Boston and conveyed it to the
defenders these discharged it, to the
eilsmay and rout of the savages. A story
is told of maid servant in Dorchester
who defeated an Indian single handed by
the use of musket and a shovelful OF
live Goals. A young girl in Maine shut q
door and held It, and 13 women and chill.
dren had time to reach block-house
while the Indians were choppihg down
the door and knocking down. though they
did not kill, its defender. Twelve years
after Bickford's ingenious defense of his
house at Oyster river some women at the
same initiated it. There being no men in
the garrison, they fired an alarm, fasten-
ed their hair to appear like men, and used
their guns so briskly that the savages fled.
In 17l2, Esther Jones saved Heard's gar
rie"n, i'll the township Of Dover, in New
lIhu'pslire, by mounting guard and call.
ing so loudly and confidently as to make
the Indians believe that help was at hand.
The stalwart Experience Bogarth of Dun
kard's Creek, i'll Pennsylvania, in n hand
to-hand fight in the door-w way, in which
two white men We're killed, slew three In
dinns with an ax.
Stories of marvellous and ingenious es-
capes were the romance of the colonies,
and such adventures date back to the ear
lest Indian War in Virginia, where man
and his wife, who had been spared in the
Wholesale slaughter, found their oppor.
tunity while the Indians were dancing for
Joy over the acquisition of white man s
boat that had drifted ashore. These cap
tlves got into canoe, and soon afterward
surprised their friei.ds 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 plundering
party in time to share in the spoil. Brack-
etts wife found broken bark canoe,
which she mended with needle and
thread; the whole family then put to sea
III this rickety craft, and at length reached
Black Point, where they got on board a
vessel. A little lad of IL years named
Eames, taken in Philips war, made his
way 30 miles or more to the settlements.
Two SONS of the famous Hannah Bradley,
previously mentioned, effected an ingeni-
GUS escape, lying all the first day in n
hollow log and using their provisions to
make friends with the dogs that had
tracked them. They journeyed in extreme
peril and suffering for nine days, and one
of them fell down with exhaustion Just as
they were entering white settlement. A
young girl i'll 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 1894, was
left, with her daughter, in charge of an
old Indian while the rest finished their
work of destruction. The old fellow ask
ed his prisoner what would cure pain in
his head. She recommended him to drink
some rum taken from her house. This
put Inn to sleep, and the woman and child
got away. Another downeast captive.
with the fitting name of Toogood, while
his captor during an attack on settle
ment was disentangling piece Of string
with which to tie him, jerked the Indians
gun from under his arm and, leveling it
Mt his head got safely away.
! Escaping captives endured extreme
hardshps. One Bard, taken in Pennsyl-
wanna, lived nine days ON few buds and
four snakes. Mrs. Inglis, captured in
the valley of Virginia, escaped in compa-
ny with German woman from place
far down the ONO river. After narrowly
avoiding discovery and recapture, they
succeeded in ascending the south bank of
the Ohio for some hundreds of miles.
When within few days travel of settle.
mente, they were 80 reduced by famine
that the German woman, enraged that
she had been persuaded to desert the In
dian iiesl-pots, and crazed with hunger,
made an unsuccessful attack on her COM
panion with cannibal intentions.
The most famous of all the escapes of
New England captives was that of Han
nah Duston, Mary Neffand boy, Samuel
Leonardson. These three were carried
of with many others in 1897 in the attack
on Haverhill, Mrs. Duston's infant child
having been killed by the Indians. When
the captors had separated, the party to
whom the two women and the boy were
assigned encamped on an island in the
Mernmac river. At midnight the cap
t'ves secured hatchets and killed 10 In
dlans-two men, two women and six child
ren-one fnvorite boy, whom they meant
to spare, and one badly wounded woman,
escaping, After they had left the camp,
the fugitives remembered that nobody in
the settlements would believe, without
evidence, that they had performed so re-
doubtable an action they therefore re-
turned and scalped the Indians, after
which they scuttled all the canoes on the
island but one, and in this escaped down
the MORNING. and finally reached Hayer.