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June 4, 1796, Silas Scovell of Wysox (Towanda) and Miss Abigail Harris of Luzerne county, Pa.
February 1, 1797, in Sheshequin, at the home of the bride's father, Gen. Simon Spalding, Joseph Kingsbury and Anna Spalding.
March 1, 1797, in Wysox, Peter Johnson and Sarah, daughter of Theophilus Moger, both of Wysox.
Spring, 1797, in Asylum, Alexander d' Autremont and Abigail, daughter of Maj. Oliver Dodge.
December 11, 1797, in Asylum, Bartholomew Laporte and Elizabeth, daughter of John Franklin.
March 20, 1798, in Sheshequin, by Judge Obadiah Gore, Wm. Buck and - Mitchell, both of Ulster.
June 26, 1798, in Sheshequin, by Judge Obadiah Gore,
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Ebenezer B. Gregory of Wysox and Miss Celinda Taylor of Ulster.
March 26, 1799, in Sheshequin, by Judge Obadiah Gore, Augustus Bingham and Sarah Bardwell, both of Ulster.
April 2, 1800, in Sheshequin, by Judge Obadiah Gore, Obadiah Brown of Ulster and Joanna Brown of Milton, Cayuga county, N. Y.
Oct. 20, 1800, in Sheshequin, by Judge Obadiah Gore, Joel Tuttle of Ulster and Rebecca Pearce of Chemung, N. Y.
February 26, 1801, Jeremiah Shaw of Sheshequin and Cynthia, daughter of Eli Holcomb of Ulster.
June 14, 1801, in Wysox, at the home of the bride's father, John Parks, by Rev. Elisha Cole, James Lent and Chloe Parks.
July 12, 1801, in Sheshequin, by Judge Obadiah Gore, David Rundle and Polly Ensign, both of Ulster.
December 31, 1801, in Sheshequin, by Judge Obadiah Gore, Elias Needham and Betsy Butler, both of Ulster.
1801, in Wysox, by Moses Coolbaugh, Esq , Wil-
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liam Myer and Joanna, daughter of Nathaniel Hickok.
October 21, 1802, John Fox and Mary, daughter of Gordon Fowler, both of Towanda Creek.
February 27, 1803, Reuben Hale of Towanda Creek and Wealthy, daughter of Isaac Tracy of Tioga Point.
October, 1805, in Terrytown, by Guy Wells, Esq., Ebenezer Horton and Mary, daughter of Jonathan Terry.
September 11, 1806, Wm Snyder of Sheshequin and Hannah, daughter of John Parks of Wysox.
Dec. 28, 1806, in Wysox, Hiram Mix and Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Ralph Martin.
February 1, 1807, Harry Spalding of Sheshequin and
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Lemira, daughter of Jno. F. Satterlee of Athens.
March 8, 1807, in Ulster, at the home of Capt. Eli Holcomb, by Samuel Gore, Esq,, Elisha Luther and Eve Ryngor.
November 9, 1808, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., John M. Smith and Rachel, daughter of Benj. Brink.
November 13, 1808, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., Albert Meads of Athens and Hannah Bernard of Ulster.
January 4, 1809, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., Abner Bullard of Chemung, N. Y., and Peggy Hiney of Ulster.
January 15, 1809, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., Wm. Horton of Lower Sheshequin and Esther Cow- ell, daughter of Christopher Cowell of Wysox.
February 19, 1809, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., George Hicks of Watertown (Rome) and Sarah Post of Claverack.
May 7, 1809, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., George Kinney and Mary, daughter of Lodowick Carner.
June 18, 1809, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., Peter Barnard and Roba, daughter of Abel Newell.
November 30, J809, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., Daniel Brink and Rachel, daughter of Jesse Smith.
December 28, 1809, in Sheshequin, Franklin Black- man and Sibyl, daughter of David Beardsley.
April 8, 1810, in Wysox, by George Scott, Esq., Capt. Joseph Elliott and Barbara, daughter of Henry Lent.
April 12, 1810, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., Jonas Smith and Jemima, daughter of Benjamin Brink.
August 28, 1810, in Wysox, by George Scott, Esq., Richard Ridgway and Miss Sally Cowell.
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Aug. 22, 1810, in Wysox, by Geo. Scott, Esq., John Watts and Miss Polly Cowell.
August 26, 1810, in Wysox, by Geo. Scott, Esq., Wm. F. Dininger and Miss Betsey Vanhorn
September 23, 1810, in Wysox, by Geo. Scott, Esq., Abraham Lent and Gitty, daughter of Wm. Elliott.
December 20, 1810, in Wysox, Shepard Pierce and Sarah, daughter of Moses Coolbaugh.
June 16, 1811, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq-, Gersham Towner and Sally, daughter of Thaddeus Hem- enway, both of Watertown (Rome).
September 29, 1811, in Towanda, by Rev. M. M. York, Joseph M. Piollet and Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Elisha Whitney, both of Wysox.
September 29, 1811, by Rev. Mr. Cole, Hezekiah Mer- ritt and Miss Polly Wells, all of Towanda.
December 15, 1811, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., Lemuel Atwood and Sarah Bernard.
February 13, 1812, in Sheshequin, Henry Welles of Athens and Sally, daughter of Jno. Spalding.
· February 16, 1812, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., John M. Hicks and Eunice, daughter of Jno. C. Forbes, all of Sheshequin.
March 25, 1812, in Wysox, by Wm. Myer, Esq., Caleb Shores and Anna, daughter of Richard Horton of She- shequin.
May 31, 1812, by Geo. Scott, Esq., David Horton and Hannah, daughter of Abel Newell all of Hornbrook.
October 4, 1812, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., Henry Hibbard and Peggy Westbrook, both of Ulster.
October 22, 1812, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq, Robert Russell and Mary Ann, daughter of Isaac Cash, both of Ulster.
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November 15, 1812, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., Stephen Merrithew and Peggy Dalton, both of Claverack.
December 6, 1812, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., Noah Spalding of Towanda and Huldah Kellogg of Ulster.
December 3, 1812, Justus Lewis of Wyalusing and Polly, daughter of Elisha Keeler of Pike.
December 31, 1812, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., Silas Burrell and Sarah Granger, both of Ulster.
February 4, 1813, in Sheshequin by Samuel Gore, Esq., Josiah Woodworth and Sally Lockwood, both of Ulster.
February 22, 1813, in Sheshequin, Elijah Townsend and Sally M., daughter of Samuel Gore.
February, 1813, in Terrytown, by Jonathan Terry, Esq., Justus Vaughn and Sally Vincent.
May 20, 1813, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., Thomas Lewis and Patty Dulittle.
June 13, 1813, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., Isaac S. Horton and Hannah, daughter of John Elliott.
June, 1813, in Terrytown, by Jonathan Terry, Esq , Isaac Sutton and Hannah Quick.
December 13, 1813, in Terrytown, by Jonathan Terry, Esq., Joseph Babcock and Polly Bixby.
January 20, 1814, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., Warren Brown and Ruth, daughter of Joseph Kin- ney.
March 2, 1814, Cornelius Coolbaugh of Wysox and Jemima, daughter of Sheffield Wilcox of Monroe.
June 19, 1814, in Wysox, by Harry Morgan, Esq., Daniel Coolbaugh and Anna, daughter of Richard Vaughn.
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June 19, 1814, in Wysox, by Burr Ridgway, Esq., David Kenyon and Sarah Post.
June 24, 1814, in Terrytown, by Jonathan Terry, Esq., Nathaniel Viall and Hannah Gaskell.
July 2, 1814, Col. Robt. Spalding of Sheshequin and Aurelia, daughter of Elisha Satterlee of Athens.
July 3, 1814, in Sheshequin, Obadiah Gore Spalding and Chlotilda, daughter of Samuel Hoyt.
July 23, 1814, By Rev. M. M. York, Jesse Woodruff and Mrs. Polly Ballard, both of Towanda.
August 7, 1814, in Terrytown, by Jonathan Terry, Esq., Joseph Frisbie and Catherine Wheeler.
September 27, 1814, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., John Williams and Hannah Roberts.
November 24, 1814, in Terrytown, by Jonathan Terry, Esq., Daniel Vargason and Amy Johnson.
December 29, 1814, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., Henry Smith and Anna, daughter of Wm. W. Spalding.
June S, 1815, in Terrytown, by Jonathan Terry, Esq., John M. Quick and Sally Preston.
November 12, 1815, in Terrytown, by Rev. M. M. York, John P. Stalford and Lydia, daughter of Maj. John Horton.
Nov. 26, 1815, in Towanda, by Burr Ridgway, Esq., Wm. Means, Jr., and Miss Eunice Hewitt, both of To- wanda.
December 24, 1815, Samuel Coolbaugh of Wysox and Nancy Ogden of Wyalusing.
February 3, 1816, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., Luther Carner and Wealthy Ann, daughter of John Spalding.
June 17, 1816, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., John Hemenway and Deborah Gray.
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July 1, 1816, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., W'm. Thompson and Elizabeth Gale.
July 16, 1816, John Horton, Jr., of Terrytown and Nancy G., daughter of John Miller.
July 28, 1816, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., David Thindy and Charity, daughter of Timothy Culver.
November 24, 1816, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., Russell Pemberton and Huldah Carner.
May 17, 1817, By C. Brown, Esq., Samuel Marshall and Miss Hannah Hoyt, both of Ulster.
July 20, 1817, in the log meeting house in Merryall, by Rev. M. M. York, Thomas Ingham of Sugar Run and Eunice, daughter of Maj. John Horton of Terrytown.
September 5, 1817, by Isaac Seymour, Esq., John Phillips and Miss A. Humphrey.
September 24, 1817, in Standing Stone, Chas. F. Ho- met, Jr., of Asylum and Lucy, daughter of Jonathan Stevens.
September 25, 1817, in Wysox, by Samuel Gore, Esq., Jacob Howard and Emma Park.
October 11, 1817, in Sheshequin, by Samuel Gore, Esq., John E. Westley and Celinda Grover.
ANNUAL
BRADFORD COUNTY
Historical Society
CONTAINING
No. 2
Papers on Local History, List of Bradford
County Pioneers, Settlement of the Townships, and Counties of Pennsylvania.
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TOWANDA, PA., BRADFORD STAR PRINT, 1908.
Bradford County Historical Society.
Reports, 1907.
Meetings -- Since the publication of the last Annual, regular monthly meetings of the Society have been held on the fourth Saturday of each month. The average attendance at these meetings has been fifty per- sons. Two meetings were especially devoted to town- ships-Standing Stone and Smithfield. May 25th, 1907, was observed as " Veterans' Day." The June meeting was devoted to " Old People's Day " and was a great success.
The public lecture by Wm. Elliott Griffis on " The Sul- livan Expedition in 1779," in conjunction with the Daughters of the American Revolution, was largely attended and very satisfactory. Besides the meetings devoted to townships and special subjects, there have been read at other meetings papers of historical interest and value. Committees are at work to designate by appro- priate monuments and markers, points of historie interest, within the county. In order to stimulate investigation by the young of our county, the Society has inaugurated prizes to pupils in the Grammar and High School grades of the schools, for the best essay on township or county his- tory, etc., which has resulted in the submission of fifty- five such essays for competition.
Library and Museum-A decided gain over any preceding year. The additions include twenty- three regimental histories of the Civil War, a dozen offi- cial reports of the Union and Confederate armies, a large collection of Journals of the Civil War, all gifts and do-
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nations. Two volumes on local history were purchased · and a dozen miscellaneous old books, including the " Travels of the Duke of Liancourt," contributed. A number of periodicals and annuals of historical societies were received on exchange. There was also a consider- able collection of old records and manuscripts received.
One case was added for soldiers' relics and many curios and articles of the olden time were contributed to the museum and log house.
ADVENT OF WHITE MAN
INTO BRADFORD COUNTY.
PAPER BY C. F. HEVERLY.
THE FIRST WHITE MEN.
When white man first visited this county he found the American Indian. How long he and his progenitors had been here is not known. Centuries have elapsed, possibly thousands of years, since this country was first peopled. Race had succeeded race, and villages gone to decay and ruin, hundreds of years before the advent of the white man. It is quite certain that a pre-historic people was here before the Indian. A study of the ruins of ancient towns, implements of stone and pottery-ware are our only evidence. In fine, we know but little, until white man came and made written history. At this period we will commence.
The first white man to visit what is now Bradford county was Stephen Brule', a Frenchman, who was an ex- plorer and interpretor for Samuel Champlain, so cele- brated in the early French achievements in America. Champlain had secured the friendship of the Hurons who occupied the territory adjoining lakes Huron and Erie. The Carantouannais were the allies of the Hurons. The country of this people was the upper waters of the Sus- quehanna. Their principal town-Carantouan-was located at what is known as Spanish Hill, just above the present village of Sayre. It was palisaded and contained eight hundred warriors. In 1615 Brule' was sent with twelve Hurons to arrange with the Carantouannais for a
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force of five hundred warriors to co-operate with Cham- plain and the Hurons in an attack upon the Onondaga stronghold. They reached Carantouan in the latter part of September, where they were " welcomed with great joy, being entertained by banquets and dances for some days." After the expedition Brule' returned to Carantouan and explored the surrounding country. The next year, 1616, he went down the Susquehanna to the sea, being the first white man ever to perform this journey, and is believed, was the first white man to set foot upon the soil of Pennsyl- vania. * It will be observed that Brule"'s visit was almost three hundred years ago, and that Bradford county has the distinction of being the first county in the State trod by white man. Brule"'s life, for twenty-four years, among the Indians, was full of thrilling interest. Finally, he was treacherously murdered by the Hurons who feasted upon his lifeless remains.
From the time of Brule', so far as we have any rec- ord, it was more than a hundred years, before the next white man passed down the Susquehanna Valley. The sufferings of the German Palatinates having been related to Governor Keith, his interest and sympathy were at once aroused. He offered them a home in Pennsylvania where their titles could be clear, and their land free from Indian claims. Accordingly in the spring of 1723, a number of these Germans cut a road from the Schoharie
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In 1614 three Dutch traders were captured by the Carantouannais while on the warpath against the Mohawks. Some writers have tried to make it appear that these Dutchmen were brought to Caran- touan. Butterfield, in his work on " Brule"'s Discoveries and Explo- rations," and other recent writers. disprove such theory, and assert, " these Dutchmen were released and never saw any part of Penn- sylvania."
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Valley through the forests to the headwaters of the Sus- quehanna. Down this rock-strewn stream these hardy pioneers floated their precious freight until they reached the mouth of Swarta Creek, below Harrisburg. They ascended this stream crossing the divide between the Sus- quehanna and Schuylkill and entered the fertile valley of the Tulpehocken in Berks county, where they formed an important settlement. During the six years following a large number of other Palatinates from Schoharie came down the Susquehanna and joined their friends at Tul- pehocken. While these people did not locate in Brad- ford county, they were among the first to cross it, and the route opened by them brought into the county its first settlers.
In 1737, Governor Gooch of Virginia desired the province of Pennsylvania to mediate between the Six Nations and the Southern Indians. Conrad Weiser was selected to perform this mission. He started on his journey with a German companion, Stoffel Stump, and an Indian guide, reaching the county by the way of the Loyalsock. Crossing the divide they came down Sugar Creek, arriving at the Indian village of North Towanda on the 29th of March. Here and at Athens they found the Indians on the verge of starvation. Their own pro- visions were exhausted, but a small supply was secured and they proceeded on their mission. The journey was one of severest hardships through a dense wilderness of five hundred miles. Weiser's observations and visit among the Indians here would be interesting to relate, but as these facts have been given by another, we will not repeat. It should be stated, however, that this was not Conrad Weiser's first visit among the Indians in this
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section, as he himself says, " He was here twelve years before." (1725.)
In July, 1743, Conrad Weiser was sent again to On- ondaga with a message from the Governor of Virginia to arrange a place of meeting with the Six Nations to form a treaty in regard to disputed lands. He was accom- panied on this expedition by John Bartram, a celebrated English traveler and botanist, Lewis Evans, geographer for the proprietaries of Pennsylvania, and Indian guides. The trip was made on horseback from Philadelphia. The party entered the county by the Lycoming route, encoun- tering many difficulties in their passage through the wil- derness. A stop was made at the Indian village at Ath- ens. Here, as at other points, observations and exami- nations were made by Bartram and Evans, who were the first men of science to visit this section, and the journey, the first one, made across the country on horseback.
Diahoga (Athens) like Easton was favorite treaty ground, and many important councils and treaties were held here with Indians. In 1756 Governor Morris sent Captain Newcastle with a message and to treat with a number of Indian chiefs at Athens. The meeting was an important one and a treaty effected. The next year and frequently thereafter representatives of the proprietary government met the Indians at Athens on various mis- sions.
In May, 1760, Christian Frederick Post, one of the most zealous Moravian Missionaries, on his way to attend a council of the Western Indians, spent a night in the Indian town at Wyalusing and preached to the Indians in their own language. This is regarded as the first gos- pel sermon ever heard in the Susquehanna Valley above
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Wyoming. Regular missionary work was commenced among the Wyalusing Indians in 1763, resulting in the building of the town of Freidenshutten, which was occupied until 1772 when the Moravians removed to the Tuscaroras Valley in Ohio.
Having briefly sketched the missions which brought the first white men into Bradford county, I invite your at- tention to the subject especially to be considered in this paper-" The first permanent settler in Bradford county."
THE FOX FAMILY.
Attention has been called to the German Palatinates and the cause of their removal from the Schoharie Valley. Of this people were Rudolph Fox and Peter Shoefelt, who with their families, came down the Susquehanna in the month of May, 1770. Mr. Fox stopped at Towanda, and Shoefelt at Frenchtown, being the first white men who undertook to make a permanent home in Bradford county. Mr. Shoefelt remained at Frenchtown six years then he sold out and removed to the West Branch, where he was killed by the Indians in 1778.
Mr. Fox settled on the west side of Towanda Creek, about a half mile above its mouth. When he came a few families of Indians were living on the creek near the Hale place, and claimed all the lands in the country. From them Mr. Fox purchased the land lying on Towanda Creek, extending from the river to the forks at Monroeton. Subsequently his purchase from the Indians was patented to himself and others, he receiving but four hundred acres and patented to him as the "Fox Chase." Having selected a site near the creek, Mr. Fox erected his cabin, and prepared for the severe struggles in the wilderness, surrounded by ferocious beasts and savage men. Except-
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ing the Christian Indian towns at Wyalusing and Ulster, the nearest white settlements were at Wyoming. So far removed from all the appliances of civilized life, he must of necessity have supplied his wants in the rudest manner of the pioneer. The sufferings of the family were many. The heroic manner in which they were met, was not only admirable, but furnishes one of the most thrilling narra- tives, found in frontier history.
While Mr. Fox had purchased his land of the Indians for a satisfactory price, yet their presence was anything but pleasant. Soon after the breaking out of the Revolu- tionary War the friendly feelings of his tawny neighbors were observed to undergo a change, and they became more haughty and exacting. Living so remote from all other settlers, his cattle and horses had unrestricted range of the country, and sometimes wandered widely. In the month of March, 1777, while in search of his cattle, he was seized and taken captive to Quebec, where he was kept for nine months, during all of which time, his family were ignorant of his fate. At one time the Indians, who were frequent and troublesome visitors, informed Mrs." Fox " That her husband had been killed because he was not a good King's man." Mrs. Fox, half in fear, and wishing to read their faces, replied, " If he had not been a good King's man he ought to have been killed." The Indians looked at each other and laughed, which Mrs. Fox regarded as sufficient proof of the falsity of their assertion, and from that moment believed her hus- band living. The family was obliged to secrete whatever the Indians might fancy in order to keep it from their depredations, especially provisions. So watchful were they for plunder that frequently the family was compelled
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to pass the whole day without food, and eat at night in the cellar. Finally they would demand Mrs. Fox to bring forth her eatables, and upon being refused, they would sharpen their knives in her presence, thinking that this would frighten her to a compliance. But she understood their cunning, and by being resolute, saved her meagre store. Discovering a hog or other animal, they would slaughter it without consulting Mrs. Fox, and to torment her more would offer her a piece of the flesh. One day two Indians came to her cabin and bade her give them meal. Having but a mere pittance, and thinking that they would not have the heart to take that from a suffer- ing family offered it to them. But she had overestimated their nobleness of heart. Taking the meal, the last she had, they squeezed it into a very small package, then pointed their fingers at her in fiendish derision, because she had not given them more.
Mrs. Fox was hopeful, and though the situation was a most perilous one, she determined to await the return of her husband. On a very cold night-the 19th of December, 1777-a call was heard from the other side of the river, which Mrs. Fox recognized as that of her hus- band, who had, at last, succeeded in making his escape. The Indians had stolen their canoe and a raft could not. be pushed across the river on account of the ice, so he was obliged to encamp in the pines, which grew thickly on the Wysox plains, and spent the night within call of the family. It was a night of suffering for all. So intense was the cold that the river had frozen over during the night. In the morning Mr. Fox ventured across and reached his family in safety.
He was not molested again until the party which
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captured the Strope family in May, 1778, came along. On their way down they took Mr. Fox prisoner, lest he should give the alarm. He managed, however, to escape from them before reaching Tioga Point. Danger from the Indians daily increased, and a friendly squaw had given them warning. Gathering some of his horses and cattle, with the aid of an assistant, Mr. Fox undertook to take them by land, while the family, with such effects as could be conveniently loaded in a bateau, were sent down the river. When in the vicinity of Dodge's Island Mr. Fox discovered a band of Indians crossing the hill in front of him. He motioned his family to come ashore, when he abandoned his stock, and got into the canoe with them. They secreted themselves behind the island until the hostile party had passed, when they again resumed their journey. It was about the time of the Wyoming battle, and the river was swarming with parties of hostile Indians. It seems almost miraculous that they could have escaped. At one time as they were passing along, they heard firing and cries on the shore. A band of Indians had surprised a party of whites. What added to their danger the babe, Rudolph, commenced scream- ing. The mother tried to hush him, crammed leaves into his mouth, and still being unable to quiet him, thrice took him up to throw him overboard-a desperate, but appar- ently only means of escaping detection. But the mother's heart could not consent to the sacrifice. They succeeded in passing the Indians and reached Sunbury in safety.
In the autumn of 1778, Mr. Fox came up the river with the Hartley Expedition to look after his interests. Upon the return of the detachment, he went back to his family. He remained at Sunbury a couple of years then
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moved his family to Wilkes-Barre, whence in 1783, he and four of his children proceeded to their old home in Towanda. They came up in company with Jonathan Forsyth, who pushed on to Choconut, N. Y. Here they found the buildings and stacks of grain which they had left in ashes. A bark-covered cabin was constructed and other preparations made for the reception of the family. When ready to return for the remainder of the family it was proposed that Elizabeth, then thirteen years of age, and one of her brothers, remain. At the last moment the boy's courage failed him when the sister volunteered to stay alone. A more heroic undertaking could scarcely be proposed. A young girl on the spot where their build- ings had been burned, surrounded by savage beasts and liable to be disturbed by savage men, consents to be the sole occupant of the premises for a week, the time sup- posed to be necessary for the trip. But unexpected trials awaited her. The mother was found to be too ill to be removed and a delay of ten days was unavoidable. Pro- visions ran short with the little girl. The Forsyths returned and called to see her, and tried to persuade her to go back with them. This she stoutly refused to do, and they left her some food, while she awaited the com- ing of the family. The shrill scream of the panther and howls of the wolf at night, added horror to her dreary situation in the wilds. Both these ferocious beasts had been heard upon her bark-covered cabin, trying to gain admission. One night as she was lying upon her bed of hemlock boughs asleep, a panther unceremoniously came in through her blanket-door, took the jerked venison from over her head and left without doing her any harm. The animal was detected by his tracks the next morning.
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