The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-13
NO WORD FROMTHE GHOST.
JoNEsBoRo PEOPLE SURE THERE
WILL BE NO WAR.

The LeGepa or Well Fsnton ns It Comes from Cole,
p,nI Time.-wnrn she Foretoid Corr.ct,
In Her Liretime and Ne n Ghost-Hcr Fanur.
to Appear on March = ana ts Neaniur.
JoNRsBoRo. Me-. March 11.-lf the older non.
ple OF this town have correctly interpreted tho
message which the ghost OF Nell Hilton brouvht
fromspirit land on the first day Of March, there
will DO no war between the United States and
spain OF any ether nation until 1859 SHAH nav
been born. SO firmly are the residents con.
WINGED that lasting peace is in store for mi.
nation that they are making plans for work
on their farms, and they hope to do A
good business catching sardincs in New
brunswick waters and bringing them to Tho
Maine cannories. They argue that as Nell HI.
ton predicted tho French and Indian and the
Revolutionary wars before she died, and as her
ghost has since correctly forctold the war OF
1912, the Mexican war, and the great struggle
between tho States, she seems to be n trust.
worthy person to have near In case OF emergen.
cy, and that, In view OF her past services, no
sensible citizen should go to the trouble and az.
pense Of buying arms and equipments until She
gives her usual warning.
The story of Nell Hilton is more than a cen.
fury and n half old. She was the daughter OF q
Cape Cod fisherman, who removed his family to
Jonesboro before the middle of tho last century,
hCSOEuiuk W u NV "ho u pretty
Puritan maiden, who resented the restraint that
the Plymouth colony placed upon the conduct
Of women, and coaxed her father to move away.
in order that she might have more freedom. A
few months after the family settled and put up
a log house. the father returned home from fish.
ing ono evening and found a big Passnma-
quoddy Indian kissing his daughter, who, in.
stead OF taking his caresses as an inc
suit, seemed to be enjoying the company
Of her copper-hued admirer. There was n boun.
ty on Indians In those days, so the father shop
his daughters admirer. and, hanging the scalu
over the fire to dry for the Boston market, asked
Nell for an explanation Of her conduct. When
pro promised Husband the father got got angry, and ar t 1fs
her that IL she liked Indians so well she would
Surprise Says sc she fS toos Elm nhs Sy S Sis Word Srf ieft home to n as
tribe tribes y Mains and az New Brunswist., among mo
The Massachusetts Bay colony had a peculiatN
brought plenty Of blankets and glass beads and
rum to trade, with the natives for furs and fish,
but for prudential reasons they refused to sell
any firearms or gunpowder. just across the
colonists kept gunpowder. lead bullets, and finS
lock guns TO exchange for beaver skins, but owe
ing to the influence Of the good Jesuitsn no Indian
result was that the Passamaquoddies made
frequent journeys between the rival trading
tho other; and upon all Of these trips Neil
Hilton, who spoke English, French. and Indian
WIFI euudl huCIty, was tne interpreter ana
chief agent in driving bargains. Though she
never married, she was. looked upon as a queen
with the braves than an edict from a council Of
chiefs. When the English drove the Acadians
out Of Nova Scotia in 1748 she predicted that a
English were going to win. she advised the In+
dams TO stand ,by the French, who had alb
After the fall OF Quebec in 1859 and the over
throw Of French, rule in America she went to
in the French schools until 1775. when on
March. / she appeared in Jonesboro among hef
war. As there was no shorthand reporter pres.
emit her exact langunge has not been preserved,
but tradition has It that she foretold the battle
and then went on and told the whole story of the
Revolution from the Declaration of Indepen.
and brought to 81; John as a Yankee spy.
who knew her we'll testified to her good conduco
and charitable deeds. she was found guilty and
n rope about ihpy neck she Addressed the p pwilla
in English. French, and Indian. After telling
the story of her lifo she informed the spectators
that she would come back from the dead when.
ever the country was threatened with war, and
let the people know in time 10 arm themselves
doubt about her identity and the objects OF her
mission, she said that whenever war was immi.
Hilton's Neck in the town Of Jonesboro, at sun.
rise on the first day OF March, and wave her
Her body was claimed by the Passamaquoddy
Indians. who took it to the tribal reservation,
and buried it on Peter DAMS Point. overlook.
Charles and Edgar Wass. two fishermen, row.
ing out BY Hilton's Neck early in the morning.
heard some one utter the tribal war cry OF this
pnssamaquoddies. Looking up they saw n long.
haired. aged woman standing on the big rocks
and as they gaZed the sun came up from the At.
lantic; Then, remembering the prediction of
Nell Hilton, they rowed back home and told tho
every able Bodied man in Jonesboro had en-.
listed in the navy to help fight England. After
that nobody doubted that Nell Hilton had told
the truth. At the time of the boundary dispute
in ls3s.39, n great many were sure that war
was coming and cast slurs at tho memory OF the
ghostly prophecies because she failed to appear;
but MS no bloodshed resulted the douhters
were convinced. On March /, 1861. Nell Hilton
and gave the Passamaquoddy warwhoop for
nail an hour, staying there until the aroused
her. when she melted into air.
AS nobody saw or heard her on March l of
this year the residents are satisfied there will
be no WEE.