Mohawk Valley genealogy and history : [a compilation of clippings, 1947], Part 35

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Is there documentary evidence of her parentage ,or is the above line of reasoning that which is adopted by present-day Dockstader gene- alogists? The later research has not been available to me, and I should appreciate any help possible on this problem.


Marie Lyle,


Lyle Heights,


Paso Robles, Colif.


GROOT, LANSING


Cornelis (Cornelius) Groot, son of Abraham and Rachel (DeGraaf) Groot, was bapt. in the Dutch Re- formed church, Schenectady, N. Y. Nov. 5, 1758. He died in 1850 (full date and place of death wanted.) He resided near Lisha Kill, Albany Co., N. Y. He married (when and where) Marytje Visscher ,daughter of Nan- ning and Lea (Lansing) Visscher. She was born May 17, 1767, probably in or near Alhany N V Che died in


1872. She married first, Fenton and second Jan. 28, 1823, Isaiah Mason, as his second wife. Also wanted full name, parentage and all possible dates of Fenton, first husband of Lucy (Sawyer.) Want to correspond with any descendant of William and Curance Sawyer.


MASON, CHILDS, SAWYER


Isaiah Mason, son of Sampson and Mercy (Sherman) Mason, born Ad- ams, Berkshire county, Mass. Nov. 11, 1793; died Western, N. Y. Aug. 11, 1867; married first Jan. 15, 1807 Sarah Childs who died at Western, N. Y. Jan. 25, 1822, aged 38 years (born about 1784). Wanted her par- entage and all possible data. He married second Jan. 28, 1823 Mrs. Lucy (Sawyer) Fenton (of preced- ing query) daughter of William and Curance Sawyer. I have data of 8 children of Isaiah Mason. Wanted to correspond with any descendant of Isaiah Mason.


Russell S. Flower,


Henryville, Pa.


Genealogical Sources in the Mohawk Valley


BIRTH, DEATII AND MARRIAGE RECORDS


(Continued from last week) LIVINGSTON COUNTY


WEST SPARTA


1881. Record, 3 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes deaths. Custodian Elmer R. Dennl- son, town clerk, Nunda, N. Y.


YORK


1881. Register, 3 vols, Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Custodian Wendell Carson, registrar of vital statistics, York, N. Y. AVON


1900. Register, 2 vols. Arr. chron .. Indexed alph, by children. Custodian William H. Clark, registrar of vital statistics, Avon, N. Y.


CALEDONIA (1887)


1881, 1913. Record, 1 vol. Arr. chron. No index. Custodian Charles M. Sutherland, registrar of vital sta- tistics, Caledonia, N. Y.


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1914. Register, 4 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes deaths. Custodian Charles M. Suth- erland, town clerk (of Caledonia), Caledonia, N. Y.


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DANSVILLE (1845)


1885. Record, 5 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages and deaths. Custodian, Charles W. Knapp, village clerk, Dansville, N. Y. GENESEO


1881, Register, 7 vols. Arr. alph. No index. Includes deaths. Custo- dian J. A. Newton ,town clerk, Gen- eseo, N. Y.


LEICESTER (1907)


1878-88 1888 Ranand


min, stephen, Catherine and Susan steuer authorities are now accepting Maria and William C. Thorp.


The inventory of the estate of John Thorp was destroyed in a fire and the names of his helrs are missing. Who were his wife and children? Who was Azariah Ketchem and which daugter of John's did he mar-


ry ?


Mrs. E. Everett Thorpe,


107 East 82 St.


New York 28, N. Y.


DE GROOT, JOHNSON


Dr. Richard De Groot, son of Reu- ben . and Margaret (Blaine) Groot, was born on his father's farm, in the town of Duanesburgh, Schenectady county, N. Y. in the year 1813. He died Dec. 15, 1856, aged 43 years (where ?) He married . (when and where) Jane Johnson who was born in 1820 (where) and died June 2, 1910 in Schenectady, N. Y. Who were her parents ? Dr. Richard DeGroot, his wife and the children mention- ed below are buried in the Reformed church cemetery, Minaville, Town of Florida, Montgomery Co., N. Y.


In 1847 Dr. De Groot headed the expedition organized by Horace Greeley to explore the California gold fields .He was a graduate of Union College, Albany Medical Col- iege and Albany Law School. He be- came a mining expert whose opinion was widely sought, and he made a name in journalism as editor of a daily paper in San Francisco where he remained after the Greeley expe- dition, was disbanded. Dr. De Groot was a descendant of Symon Symonse Groot who settled in Schenectady in 1663. The children of Reuben and


Margaret (Biaine) Goot were .the only members of the family to use the name De Groot. The children of Dr. Richard ano Jane (Johnson) De Groot who are known to me were: 1. Marcia Jané De Groot born 1841, died May 1, 1866.


2. Margaret. Blaine De Groot born 1852, died Feb. 17, 1914 at Schenec- tady, unmarried.


3. Anna De Groot born?, died?, married Stephen Eliott Hyser. 4. Charies De Groot ?


Donald A. Keefer,


RD 2 Sacandaga Road, Schenectady, N. Y.


JONES


Have immediate need for informa- tion on the parentage and ancestry of Solomon Jones who lived in Mid-


· dleburg, Schoharie county, N. Y. at the time he married the widow Han- nah Bussing Friday of Bethlehem, N. Y. Sept. 18, 1804 at the First Presbyterlan church in Albany. He was born "near Saybrooke, Conn." 1760. Served in Revolutionary war from Conn. when 15 years of age. Lived near Poultney, Vermont around 1800, Essex Co., N. Y., later Orwell, Vt. Solomon and Amos Jones received deed of land from Amasa and Azube Jones April, 1810, town of Bethlehem, county of Albany, N. Y. Are these of one family ?


Children · of Hannah: Chauncey, Isaac, Daniel, Timothy, Wealthy, born 1808, Jesse born 1811 Essex Co., N. Y.


Compensation commensurate with second Bueli and iived at Martins- proven information received.


Correspondence Invited on Elliott family. Mrs. Elmer L. Neison, Saratoga Road, Fort Edward, N. Y.


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Jerg and Anna Elizabeth as her parents. This was also W. P. Web- ster's opinion, as shown in unpub- lished notes. The entry in the "Sin- mendinger Register," p. 12 would appear to favor this view. It reads: "Dachstaetter, Georg and his wife Anna Elizabeth with 4 children." This statement shows them to have been the Palatinate immigrants to America in 1710. Barbara Eliza- beth's age, 88 years, at her death on July 1, 1812, would place her birth in 1724 in America.


Is there documentary evidence of her parentage ,or is the above line of reasoning that which is adopted by present-day Dockstader gene- alogists ? The later research has not been available to me, and I should appreciate any help possible on this problem.


Marie Lyle,


Lyie Heights,


Paso Robles, Colif.


GROOT, LANSING


Cornelis (Cornelius) Groot, son of Abraham and Rachei (DeGraaf) Groot, was bapt. in the Dutch Re- formed church, Schenectady, N. Y. Nov. 5, 1758. He died in 1850 (full date and place of death wanted.) He resided near Lisha Kill, Albany Co., N. Y. He married (when and where) Marytje Visscher ,daughter of Nan- ning and Lea (Lansing) Visscher. She was born May 17, 1767, probably in or near Albany, N. Y. She died In 1836 (fuli date, wanted). Where are Cornelius and Marytje Groot buried ? I would like any information which would help give me a com- piete record of their children, such as dates of birth, marriage and death. The following are the only


1. Helena (Helen) Groot, married Abraham Ver Planck Lansing.


2. Rachel Groot married Jacob J. Lansing.


3. Catherine Groot married Gullan Ver Planck Lansing.


4. Eliza Groot married John Lan- sing.


Abraham V. P., Jacob J., Gulian. V. P. and John Lansing were brothers and sons of Coi. John Van Arnhem and Harriet (Ver Planck) of Water- vliet, N. Y.


Doald A. Keefer,


RD 2 Sacandaga Road, Schenectady, N. Y,


SAWYER


Wanted parentage and further an- cestry of both William Sawyer and his wife Curance. She died at the home of her daughter, Lucy (Saw- yer) Fenton Mason at South Hill, Western 'Township, Onelda county, N. Y. on Aug. 20, 1862, aged 87 yrs. (born about 1775). According to family tradition their children were: 1. Addison Sawyer who married Zilpha Mason, daughter of Isaiah


and Sarah (Childs) Mason. They lived at Ava, Oneida county, N. Y. 2. William Sawyer who lived at Whitesboro, Oneida county. 3. Jus- tus Sawyer who lived at Salisbury, Herkimer county. 4. Philena Saw- yer who married first Buckley and


burg ,Lewis county. 5. Russell Saw- yer who lived at Cortiand, Cortland county where he was overseer of the County Home. 6. Lucy Sawyer born (where) Oct. 4, 1793; dled at South Hili, Western .Township Sept. 4,


WEST SPARTA


1881. Record, 3 vois. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes deaths. Custodian Elmer R. Denni- son, town clerk, Nunda, N. Y.


YORK


1881. Register, 3 vols, Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Custodian Wendell Carson, registrar of vital statistics, York, N. Y.


AVON


1900. Register, 2 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Custodian William H. Clark, registrar of vital statistics, Avon, N. Y.


CALEDONIA (1887)


1881, 1913. Record, 1 voi. Arr. chron. No index. Custodian Charles M. Sutheriand, registrar of vital sta- tistics, Caledonia, N. Y.


1914. Register, 4 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes deaths. Custodian Charles M. Suth- erland, town clerk (of Caledonla), Caledonla, N. Y.


DANSVILLE (1845)


1885. Record, 5 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages and deaths. Custodian, Charles W. Knapp, village clerk, Dansville, N. Y.


GENESEO


1881. Register, 7 vols. Arr. alph. No index. Includes deaths. Custo- dian J. A. Newton ,town clerk, Gen- eseo, N. Y.


LEICESTER (1907)


1878-86, 1888. Record, 3 vols. Arr. . chron. Indexed alph. by children. In- cludes marriages and deaths. Custo- dian, Craig Harrington, town clerk, Leicester, N. Y.


LIMA (1867)


1881. Register, 3 vols. Arr. chron. 1881-1913, no index; 1914 indexed and deaths. Custodian Mary P. Gui- nan, village clerk, Lima, N. Y.


LIVONIA (1882)


1881. Register 3 vols. Arr. chron. | 1881-1913, no index; 1914 indexed alph. by children. Records for 1884- 94 Incomplete. Custodian Charles H. Cary, town clerk, Livonia, N. Y. MT. MORRIS (1835)


. 1885. Record, 4 vols. Arr. chron. Indexed alph. by children. Includes marriages 1885-98 and deaths 1885. Custodian Mrs. Agnes B. Bryant, registrar of vital statistics, Mount Morris, N. Y.


NUNDA (1839)


1882-98. Register, 1 voi. Arr. aiph. No index. Includes deaths. Subse- quent records with clerk of town of Nunda. Custodian Giadys Giymps, village clerk, Nunda, N. Y.


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Enterprise & News


An ABC Newspaper ST. JOHNSVILLE, N. Y. ' Telephone 3741 -


S. K. IVERSON PUBLISHER


Entered at the St. Johnsville Post- office, St. Johnsville, N. Y. as second class matter. Published Every Thurs- day SUBSCRIPTION RATES


Montgomery, Fulton and Herkimer Counties One Year $2.50. All other: $3 except Canada $4 . Six Months $2.00


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children I have a record of. Were alph. by children. Includes marriages there others ?


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The Petries In America


INTRODUCTION


These notes of and records of the Johan Jost Petrle family and descendants In America have been complled by Mrs. Frederick Staenla, Munnsville, N. Y. with the assistance of Dr. and Mrs. R. O. Petrie, Johnstown, N. Y .. , Mrs. Edwin Freer, Port Ewen, N. Y. and many others whose names will appear later. Our re- cords are far from being com- plete. If any reader of this pa- per Is connected with the Petries In any way, we request that he, or she, write to Mrs. Staehla.


(Continued from last week)


Clinton Papers, Vol. 6, 340-45 gives names of sufferers at German Flats who were burned off and lost their effects by the enemy Sept. 1778. All above sixteen years old were allowed one pound of bread and one pound of beef per day. All under 16 years, half a pound of bread and a half a pound of beef per day.


Catherine Petry, above 1, under 4. Barbara Petry above 1, under 4. William Petry above 4, under 2. Conrad Foits above 4, under 2.


Those who lost houses and barns but had some grain left were put on half allowance.


Jacob Folts above 4, under 5. These, Conrad and Jacob, may have been sons of Jacob and Cath- erine Petri Folts, but no proof.


Clinton Papers, Vol. VI, 724-28, gives a list of persons captured by the British and Indians in the Mo- hawk Valley, Tryon Co., N. Y. in the year 1780.


Mark Shell (Schell)


Henry Shell, twin sons of Johan Christian. Schell who were captured at the battle at the blockhouse John Jost Bellinger, son of Col. Peter and his cousin, Marcus Casler ' (Kessley,) son of Jacob Kessler who married Delia Petrie, sister of Lt. Dieterich (Marcus) Petrie killed at Oriskany. .


The story of these two boys was related by L. F. Bellinger in his "Stories of the Frontier," published In 1934 in the Enterprise and News. It is retold here much the same as I given by him.


A mlie east of Fort Herkimer was a grist mill to which the grain was carried to be converted into flour. Three miles east of the foft In the town of Little Falls was a strong house which had been, in the spring ›f 1779, picketed and prepared for iefense by order of Col. Peter Bel- linger At one time this little fort had a garrison of 15 or more men inder Lt. Jacob Petrie and Ens. (Continued from last week.) Patrick Campbell. To this fort Col. Peter had sent his eldest daugher, Fortunately at this juncture Lt. Col. William Butler of Pennsylvania (no relation to the Mohawk Valley or Wyoming, Pa., Butlers) became commander of the Schoharie Military District of Albany county. He was an able and aggressive leader, ex- perienced in Indian warfare. He urg- ed an immediate expedition Into Catharine, widow of Lt. Richard M. Petrie who was killed at Oriskany, her children and other immediate relatives under care. Near neighbors rushed there for temporary protec- tion from thesmall raiding parties who were so active at this time. Larger bodies of the enemy moved more slowly of necessity which gave the heart of the Indian country of time ' for the occupants of these western New York where 20,000 smail forts to reach For Herkimer acres of fertile land was under cui- master security and for strang- tivation and producing food supplies


Andrustown-a Page from Herkimer County's Past


Continued from last week)


Ever since the battle beyond old Fort Schuyler a sable-clad spectre had been creeping from the red bat- tle ground towards the hills of An- drustown, with firebrand in its skele- ton hand. Tradition avers that by the hand of Andrustown patriots a celebrated chief and a prominent of-


the forest wind. It came nearer. Then the sound came again-a blood curdling chorus of strange barking screams, as from the throats of man- iac women. It was the Indian war- whoop.


Paul Grimm chanced to be near his cabin, and trained in the science of savage warfare, heard the sounds of the Indians from afar. He rushed ficer of St. Leger's forces feli. Miles i to his cabin and hurried out with his back in the deep ravine of Oriskany


pioneer partner and son Jacob's wife they lay, one wrapped in a scarlet and her two children to the yard.


But he knew not where to hide. He was cut off from the forest by the coming enemy, and the open fields and hills before him offered no pro- tection. Then in desperation he point-


blanket and the other dressed in military coat of red. Both lay amid the trampled grass and dead flowers staring towards the waving treetops surrounding the happy village in Henderson. Siowly, very slowly, the ; ed to a small, inadequate place, a dark spectre crept up the great hilis secretive nook at least. A large tree towards Andrustown. As it neared had been uprooted some days before the precincts of happy domiciles es- in a violent windstorm and an exca- tablished by those patriarchs of old vation had been formed where the it paused and wrote with its bony roots and earth parted company. finger In the rich Hendersontown soil ; The women and little ones concealed -"revenge"-then stealthily crawl- themselves In these cramped quat- ed onward. The days were now but ters. Paul Grimm hid by thelr side


few when this spectre would rise In a brush pile near the large trunk and hurl its firebrand in their midst, and that hour came at last. of a fallen tree. Then came from the thicket the sound of whistling bullets In the summer a furlough was granted the Andrustown settlers that they might resume their agricultur- al tasks on the Helderbergs. Some clothed in homespun and others in tattered regimentals, bearing heavy and the sharp crack of guns. A swarm of savages came leaping from the brush In the direction of the southwest. It was a horrible specta- cle. Naked, yelling demons, hideous- ly disfigured by daubs of red ochre flintlock muskets journeyed up the and jet black markings. A bunch of fresh scalplocks dangled from the hiiis to the, settlement to hoe . the corn and make the hay. The bright sunlight of July 18th, 1778, smiled on the pastoral scene and no hint was there that its parting rays belt of each, and on their legs be- neath the scalps something darker than the red stain trickled down- ward, mingling with the warpaint. The murderous, befeathered band rushed forth upon the inhabitants of that little town. Foremost among the savages was the familiar figures of Powers, though color-smeared 'and garbed as a forest denizen. The blue eyes of the Tory shone with a mali- cious light through his paint-streak- ed visage, as with uplifted hatchet he struck down women and children, dashing into the thickest of the fray, rendering often the scalp yell in cho- rus with the savages. As the death halloo was raised about its victims, as it mingled tones of triumph and horror reached the forest glens, back In falling cadences came its uncanny echoes from the hills of Andrustown.


would gleam on the iblood of slaugh- tered victims and the flames of their cabins, redder than Its sinking light. . The birds sang sweetly in the thick- jets and the prattie of little children broke the quietness of the morn. The inhabitants were at their usual vocations. Near the cabin of George Passage stood a huge Dutch oven where the housewives assembled


once or twice a week to do the fam- ily baking. All was peace within the hamlet some were humming songs as they toiled among the tall green stalks of corn, with its rustling leaves; others whistled merry tunes as they swung the scythe and laid low the swathes of grass. Suddenly there arose a strange sound above


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MORGAN'S RIFLEMEN AT THE MIDDLE FORT


sons.


The riflemen then proceeded to the Charlotte Valley in the neighborhood of present day South Worcester to arrest and bring to the Middle Fort for questioning, one Christopher


Service. From letters taken from


Tory prisoners of the Smith party by the riflemen it was .learned that Smith and his Tory party had in- tended to rest and plek up food sup- plies at the Service home. Forty loaves of bread had been baked in! anticipation of their arrival. When


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Henry Snell, twin sons of Juan The birds sang sweetly in une uuck- Christian. Schell who were captured! at the battle at the blockhouse


John Jost Bellinger, son of Col. Peter and his cousin, Marcus Casler (Kessley,) son of Jacob Kessler who married Della Petrie, sister of Lt. Dieterich (Marcus) Petrle killed at Oriskany.


The story of these two boys was related by L. F. Bellinger in his "Stories of the Frontier," published in 1934 in the Enterprise and News. It is retold here much the same as given by him.


ets and the prattle of little children broke the quietness of the morn. The Inhabitants were at their usual vocations. Near the cabin of George Passage stood a huge Dutch oven where the housewives assembled once or twice a week to do the fam- ily baking. All was peace within the hamlet some were humming songs as they toiled among the tall green stalks of corn, with its rustling leaves; others whistled merry tunes as they swung the scythe and lald low the swathes of grass. Suddenly there arose a strange sound above


Powers, though color-smeared 'and [garbed as a forest denizen. The blue eyes of the Tory shone with a mali- cious light through his paint-streak- ed visage, as with uplifted hatchet he struck down women and children, dashing into the thickest of the fray, rendering often the scalp yell in cho- rus with the savages. As the death halloo was ralsed about its victims, as it mingled tones of triumph and horror reached the forest glens, back in falling cadences came its uncanny ' echoes from the hills of Andrustown.


(To be continued)


A mile east of Fort Herkimer was a grist mill to which the grain was carried to be converted into flour. Three miles east of the foft in the town of Little Falls was a strong MORGAN'S RIFLEMEN AT THE MIDDLE FORT house which had been, in the spring of 1779, picketed and prepared for defense by order of Col. Peter Bel- linger At one time this little fort had a garrison of 15 or more men SonS. inder Lt. Jacob Petrie and Ens. (Continued from last week.) Patrick Campbell. To this fort Col. The riflemen then proceeded to the Fortunately at this juncture Lt. Col .- William Butler of Pennsylvania (no relation to the Mohawk Valley or Wyoming, Pa., Butlers) became commander of the Schoharie Military District of Albany county. He was an able and aggressive leader, ex- | perienced in Indian warfare. He urg- ed an immediate expedition into Charlotte Valley In the neighborhood of present day South Worcester to arrest and bring to the Middle Fort for questioning, one Christopher Peter had sent his eldest daugher, Catharine, widow of Lt. Richard M. Petrie who was killed at Oriskany, her children and other immediate relatives under care. Near neighbors rushed there for temporary protec- Service. From letters taken from Tory prisoners of the Smith party by the riflemen it was learned that Smith and his Tory party had in- tended to rest and pick up food sup- plies at the Service home. Forty tion from th esmall raiding parties who were so active at this time. Larger bodies of the enemy moved more slowly of necessity which gave the heart of the Indian country of time 'for the occupants of these small forts to reach For Herkimer for greater security and for strang- er resistance. western New York where 20,000 acres of fertile land was under cul- loaves of bread had been baked in tivation and producing food supplies anticipation of their arrival. When Service was informed of the object of the visit of the riflemen he re- for the British, Tory and Indians based at Fort Niagara.


In November with snow on the ground the lame son of Col. Peter (John Jost born Feb. 1766) and his the Middle Fort, found the defenses as laid out by a Continental Army engineer the previous year, but par- tially completed. The en-'osing of two or more acres of ground with posts set three feet in the ground was compleed. Besides this pallisad- ing, elevated watch powers in the cousin Marcus Kessler (born April 1766) mounted a horse with a sack of grain to go to .the mill two miles up the road. While the women were watching the boys after they had left the mill the lurking Indians fir- ed, killing the horse under them and carried both boys off, before the eyes northwest and southeast corners of


Lt. Col. Butler, on his arrival at, sisted arrest and was killed in the melee that followed. One authority says he was shot by Murphy as he reached for a broad axe, another that he was shot by Ellison (Eler- son) of the Riflemen. Service had long been a thorn in the side of the Continental sympathizers because


of his ald to the Tory and Indian forces. Two or three other arrests the enclosure, gual." houses for the were made at the Service premises sentries near the south gate, a pow- der magazine under the kitchen in the cellar and many cabins for the use of both the troops and the civi-


Busy days for the riflemen fol- lians inside the stockade, were con- lowed. All of the residents of the


The prisoners passed up West Can- ada creek, down Black river, around Black Lake to Ogdensburg, thence structed. More wells were dug to Schoharie Valley area were rounded to Montreal, tramping through the increase the water supply. And last up and if there was any question of snow up to their knees, wading icy of all two brass cannon were mount-, their loyalty to the Continental Con- streams, some of them chin deep ed on blockhouses in the northeast : gress they were made to take the and across the St. Lawrence. With and southwest corners of the enclos- oath of allegiance or suffer impri- | hardships of this nature the lame boy ure so that all of the approaches to sonment at Albany. The Continental lagged behind delaying the party., the fort were commanded. minded residences began to breath


While this work went feverishly easler and what Is more important on with the help of the militia and they continued working their farms


The Indians prodded the poor young- ster forward until they announced to death In case of abandonment in and hauling of timbers with their and the Northern


hourse and ox teams and putting the weeks following the arrival of the timbers in place, the riflemen had rifle corps many neutrals became no part in these activities. They, Continental adherents and for the with a few local militiamen as guides 'time being the raids on the valley


the wilderness and so permit the en- tire party, whose rations were run- ning law, to shorten their trip by j greater speed. The young cousin begged piteously for the life of his were sent out into the forests, hills ceased. This is easy to understand kinsman and finally promised carry his lame cousin on his back to when the latter became too exhaust- ed to keep up.




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