Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-07-19
REMARKABLE EXPLOITS.
some Famous EsrRpes fran Indians--stpr.es
of tie Early Sellers.

of tie Early se..Iers.
Ir. Edward Egg .eston paper in the
Century on /" Indian War in the Colo
MES" recounts the following EXPLOITS:
Stories of marye Gus and ingenious
escapes were the romance of the jlo-
MES and such advent Tres date back tc
the earliest Indian war in Virg MIA,
where man and his wife, who hal
been spared in the wholesale slaugh-
ter. found their opportunity while the
Indians were dancing 70, Joy over the
acquisition of white mans boat that
had drifted ashore. These captives got
into canoe, and soon afterward sur
prised their friends in the settlements,
who had BELOVED them to be dead.
Very like this was the escape of An
thony Bracket and his wife in Maine.
They were left TO follow on after their
captors, who were eager to reach
plundering party in time 30
share in the spoil Bracket s
wife found broken bark canoe, which
she mended with needle and thread
the whole family then put to sea in
this rickety craft, and at length reached
Black Point, where they got on board
a vessel. 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
Hannah Bra Hey, previously men
toned, effected an ingenious escape,
lying allthe first day in a hollow log
and using their provisions to make
friends with the dogs that had tracked
them. They iourneyed in extreme
peril and suffering for nine days, and
one of them fell down with exhaust. on
just as they were entering white
settlement. A young girl in Massa-
chusetts, after three weeks of captivity,
made bride of bark, and catching a
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
asked his prisoner what would cure Il
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 of Toogood, while his captor
during an attack on settlement was
disentangling piece of string with
which to tie him, jerked the Indians
gun from under his arm and, leveling
it at his head, got safely away.
Escaping captives endured ex-
treme hardships. One Bard, taken in
Pennsylvania. lived nine days on few
buds and four snakes. Mrs. Inglis,
captured in the valley of Virginia, es-
capped ina company with a German
woman from place way down the
Ohio river. After narrowly avoiding
discovery and rec apture they succeeded
in ascending the south bank of the
Ohio for some hundreds of miles.
When within few days travel OF
settlements they were SO reduced by
famine that the German woman, en-
ragged that she had been persuaded to
desert the Indian tleshpots. and crazed
with hunger, made an unsuccessful
attack on her companion with canni-
bal intentions.
1.-The most famous of all the es apes
of New England captives was that OF
Hannah Duston, Mary Neff, and boy.
Samuel Leonardson. These three were
carried off, with many others, in 1897,
in the attack on Hayerhill, Mrs. Dus-
tons 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, en-
camped on an island in the Merri-
mac river. Atmidnight the captiyes Sc
cured hatchets and killed ten Indians
two men, two women and six children
--one favorite boy, whom they meant
TO spare, and one wounded woman, es-
Gaping After tsey had left the camp
the fugitives remembered that nobody
in the settlements would believe, with.
out evidence, that they had perform. 4
SO redoubtable an action; they there
fore returned and sealpe6 the Indiar-
after which they uttled all the canoes
on the island but one, and in this eS-
capped down the Merrimac. and finally
reached Haverhil'. This was such DC
exploit as made the actors imme(ll...e,
~ famous in that bloody time. The
Mass achusetts general court gave Mrs
Duston twenty-five pounds and grants
half that amount to each of her Co"
panions. The story of their daring
deed was carried far to the southwark
and Governor Nicholson, OF Marylan
sent valuable present to the escs e
prisoners"
Rirrainrhano AID l-nox,-x, - e.