Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-14

made halt and were engaged In shooting
salmon, party of the enemy who had Sc
cretly followed them. Five of the party
Sergt. John Haywood, Sergt. Isaac Taylor,
and Privates John Dodd, Daniel Mann
and Joseph Severance were killed outright.
Joseph Petty was wounded and left be-
hind and was never heard OF afterwards.
On the 10th Of June a party of Ii men, on
their way from Hinsdale TO Fort Dummer,
fell into ambuscade and Jonathan French,
Joseph Richardson and John Fish were
killed and William Bickford MORALLY
wounded. Six others, Henry Stevens,
Benjamin Osgood, William Blanchard,
Joel johnson, Matthew Wyman and Mo-
SEES Perkins, were carried prisoners to
Canada.
The most considerable action of the
year in this vicinity occurred in MARI
borough on Sunday, June 26, between
scouting party led from Number by
Capt. Humphreys Hobbs, and a party of
the enemy led by halfbr Indian
named Sackett. In this engagement
Hobbs's men were so well posted that he
lost only nine killed and four wounded.
The enemy, however, suffered severely.
They were estimated at four times the
force of the English, and the battle was
accounted one of the most severe Of the
war in this region. Hobbs and the resi-
due of his force took refuge in Fort Dunn
mer the day after the fight. About Is
days later, half mile from Fort Drummer,
across the river, ten men who were on
their way from Mortified to Keene to
strengthen the garrison there, were fell
upon by a party of French and Indians
and mostly captured. Effort was success
fully made to cover the flight of two of
them who ran down to the river bank
under the guns Of the fort; but the garri-
son was not strong enough to send over an
attacking party TO give fight to the Indians.
II was in view of these repeated alarms
that Mr.. Gardner, chaplain of the fort,
preached in July of that year from the text
in Revelation III, 3; "If, therefore, thou
shalt not watch l will come on thee as a
thief and thou shalt not know what hour
| will come upon thee"
The peace of Aix-la-C happelle conclud-
ed on Oct. Is, 174S, and proclaimed in this
country in January, 1149, brought quiet
a while to the frontiers. The garrison at
Fort Dummer was reduced to ten or -
men, and hope began to revive that men
might cultivate their fields in safety and
that women might tuck their children in
bed without terror OF the midnight war
whoop and tomahawk. So confident was
this anticipation Of better times that a
general movement for town incorporation
was inaugurated, and Governor Benning
Wentworth of New Hampshire, TO which
province Vermont territory was then sup
posed TO belong, issued grants for town
ships to Bennington in 1I49; TO Halifax
in 1850; TO Wilmington and Marlboro in
l7jl; to Rockingham and Westminster in
lIj2; and to marlborough, Townshend,
Putney and Vernon in 1853.
But, once more, the fond hopes of the
l0ng-trie frontier settlers were doomed to
disappointment. The formal peace of AK
la-Chappele was for this region nominal
only. Indian war parties lowered round
the frontier and ten years more are yet TO
pass before actual quietude arrived. In
some parts of the country these ten years
were marked by as bloody conflicts and as
savage atrocities as had blackened the page
of all the long records Of Indian warfare
hitherto. In this region, now especially
under our consideration, it may be suf-
ficient to mention only few particulars.
On the 30th of August, 1854, the Indians
broke into the house of James johnson at
Number 4 and carried him and his wife
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TO Canada. On the second day of this
march Mrs. johnson was delivered of a
daughter, whom the sad mother named
Captive. The Indians were, however un-
wontedly kind TO mother and babe and
carried the mother on a litter till she was
able to ride horse. The journey, however,
was long and provisions gave out; and the
horse was killed for food; the baby itself
being kept alive by sucking bits of the raw
flesh. The baby, however, lived and grew
up to be the wife of Col. George Kimball
of Cavendish.
On the 27th of June, 1885, more serious
affair occurred at Bridgeman's Stockade in
Vernon, little distance below Fort Dunn
me-. On the coming of this day Caleb
Howe, Benjamin Garfield, Helkiah Grout
and two of Caleb Howe's sons were re-
turning from a days work in a field near
the river, when they were fired on by a
party of Indians in ambush. Howe was
MORALLY wounded and scalped. Garfield
was drowned in attempting TO swim across
the river. Grout lodged into the woods
and escaped. The two Howe boys were cap
tured. Meantime the anxious families in the
Stockade who had heard the firing watched
for the return of the missing members.
Hearing knocking at the gate they sup
posed their friends had arrived. But on
removing the bolts, in poured their enc
mics. The three tamiles,-Mrs. Howe,
Mrs. Grout, and Mrs. Garfield, IA persons
in all, were taken prisoners and carried to
Canada. Mrs. Howe and three of her
children were afterward redeemed. Mrs.
Howe married Mr.. Amos Tute, and dying
lies buried in the Vernon graveyard
under stone which bears the following
inscription, familiar to many here:
Mrs. Jemima Tute
Succe,ively relct OF Messrs.
William Phipps, Caleb Howe and Amos Tute.
The two first were killed by the Indians.
Phipps, July 5th, I143
Howe, June Goth, 1855.
When Howe was killed she and her children
Then seven in number
Were Carried into Captivity
The Oldest daughter went TO France
And was married to a French Gentleman.
The youngest was torn from her Breast
And persisted with Hunger.
by the aid OF some benevolent Gentleman
And her own personal Herosm
She recovered the rest.
She had two by her last Husband
OutlIved both him and them
And died March 9TH, 1905, Aged So
Having passed through more vcissitudes
And endured more hardships
Than any of her Contemporaries.
No more can savage foes annoy
Nor aught her wide spread fame destroy.
Her husband, Caleb Howe, who was
wounded and scalped on the afternoon of
June n, was found still living next morn
ing; taken across the river to Hinsdale's
fort where he died, apparently on the Goth.
His grave stone still stands recording his
death at 30 years of age. A month later
than the Howe tragedy, four men of Hins-
dale's fort were surprised cutting poles for
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