Oneof these survivors by the name of Job, lived to a good old age ; gaining his livelihood by fishing on the banks of the Hudson ; but whenever he could be tempted to relate the horrors of that day, the big tears would start in his eyes and he would sob like a child. Nimham the Indian chief fell as related by the hand of Wright, Simcoe's orderly huzzar, in the swamp between Jesse Halstead's house and John and Frederick Devaux's, now the Mankin property. There it was left a prey to the dogs and crows to be devoured at their leisure. All trace of the bones are now gone. Eighteen Indians were buried in one pit in Indian field ; it is still a current tradition, that the old Sachem haunts the scene of conflict.

Does fancy's mimic dread pourtray "■ •-;

Amid the boughs a spectre gray, '' ,- . .. ■ . . - ' ' Or is it, the boding vision seen

Where murders bloody work has been ?

[Yamoyden.

It is not a little singular that a few months preceding th battle, the two British Generals Simcoe and Tarleton, had a narrow escape of their lives from these very Indians. These officers it appears were making observations on the country, and patroling with a few huzzars. " The Stockbridge Indians about sixty in number, excellent marksmen, had just joined Gen.

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Washington's army. Lieut. Colonel Simcoe was describing a private road to Lieut. Colonel Tarleton : Wright, his orderly dragoon, alighted and took down a fence of Devaux's farm yard for them to pass through ; around this farm the Indians were lying in ambuscade ; Wright had scarce mounted his horse, when these officers, for some trivial reason altered their intentions, and, spurring their horses, soon rode out of sight, and out of reach of the Indians.