Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-11-06

mont. On some occasions scouts were
sent up ye West River Mountain there to
Lodge on We top and view Evening and
Morning for smoak, and from thence up to
We mountain at We Great Falls, and there
also to Lodge on ye top and view morning
and evening for smoaks.' The Great Falls
came afterward to be called Bellows Falls.
The garrison was reduced after the close
of the war in 1927. Capt. Kellogg was
taken from Deerfield in 1904 when II years
old had learned the petry trade while
prisoner in Canada, and asked the general
court that trading house be established at
Fort drummer or further up the river. The
fort was selected for that purpose and he
became both captain and truckmaster,
June 10, 1928, the General Court set apart
"e1000 equal to about e333 is Sd sterling
for the purchasing goods to be lodged at
the Truck-house above Mortified to sup
ply the Indians withal." The truckmaster
was directed "to advance 80 per cent on
rum sugar and molasses and % per cent on
European goods In 1870 Rev. Ebenezer
Hinsdell became the chaplain. He was
the son of Lieut. Meheuman Hinsdell, who
was the frst-born child at Deerfield; and his
second wife was Abigail, daughter of the
Rev. John Williams of Deerfeld. The In
dams engaged at first did not long remain,
but returned to their own ways. The
chaplain labored with them and some
came to hear him preach. One squaw pre-
scented her child for baptism, which was
refused because she had not been baptized
a reason which, he wrote to the General
Court, he could not make her understand
a treaty appears to have been entered into
with some of the Indians in 1871. The
records of the General Court for Monday
July 10, 1871, show:
"A petition of Capt. Joseph Kellogg Truck Mas
ter at the Fort above Mortified praying that II,
may be allowed for half Barrel Of powde
which he lost by the staving of a casl in trans
porting it. as also for three yards and half o
scarlet cloth being SO much short measure in
piece he bought for the Indian trade K that h
may be allowed the sum of lOe Jos by him ex
pended on the French Maquas upon their deliver
ing the Calumet of Peace, & proposing that tn
roof Of the Truck House be repaired, 4 that SEP
arate room should be built ON the back side 70
keeping the goods, a also that the garrison whic
is now very weak & small should be enlarged. Il
the House Of Representatives Read and ordere
that the memorialist be allowed out of the publ
treasury for the half barrel of powder the tire
yards and a half Of scarlet cloth at the rate h
was charged therefor, and the sum Of l0f los h
expended in Entertaining the Indians, the sal
Kellogg to apply to Mr. Laughton, Of whom
bought the cloth for satisfaction for the shor
measure and when obtained to return the sam
into the treasury, and that Mr., Treasurer suppl
the said Kellogg with materials for covering an
repairing the Block House as also for buildin
a room separate apartment for a store hons
on the back OF said block house. In council rea
: & concurred. Consented to J. BELCHER."
To encourage trade and peace Octobe
g, 1874, Massegunn first captain, Nannf
= toohan second captain, and Massama
r lieutenant were received into the fort a
5 commissioners from the "Scaticook' Ind
l ans, whose headquarters were wher
7 Schaghticoke is now; and September
= 1875, Ontausoogoe colonel, Thyhausilha
I lieutenant colonel, and Connerghan majo
4 from the Caughuawagas, who rename
e there ten years.
= The most ceremonious treaty made hel
: was ludI Ol OCIODtI ., 1iOii III IcLCMdi
e the former treaty, when John StoddarC
r Eleazer Porter, Thomas Wallis, JOSEF
Kellogg and Israel Williams, commission
4 ers of the province, met delegates of IL
4 three tribes of Caughuawagas. Anon
f other things OntaussoogOe said: "Broth'
e the Broadway two years past l was I
> Deerfield; the matter then delivered to l
= by you was that the old covenant of peaC
e and unity between us might be continues
!, We now return answer for our three tribe
e that our desire is that it might renal
S firm and mistaken, and do from our hea
S promise that the covenant shall not
r broken on our part, but if ever there shou
h be any breach it shall begin on yours; al
o the God of Heaven who now sees us al
J. and knows what we are doing be witne
e of our sincerity" He then laid down
e belt of wampum and said: eve yol
Is brethren of the three tribes have learn,
IS by hearsay that our Brother the Broadwi
IS has lost his wife. Such losses ought to
e made up. We did not know whether Il
r Governor would be capable of Treaty u