Their first act appears to have been, to secure the females in the cellar; having effected this, they proceeded to interrogate the general's father, and demanded his money. On refusing to satisfy their demands, they immediately hung him by his neck to an adjoining tree ; and when life was well nigh extinct, they cut him down, and again repeated their threats, but to no better purpose. Whereupon, they once more suspended and lowered him, leaving him for dead. During these proceedings, the females had escaped from the cellar, and Mrs. Odell, the general's mother, a woman of great intrepidity, boldly assaulted them, upon which, these cowardly villains attacked her with the butt ends of their muskets. She managed however, to escape with a few broken ribs. On this occasion, the general was too young to take an active part in the affray, and narrowly escaped by lowering himself with a cord from the garret window. His son Jacob Odell, Esq. now owns the property. The adjoining estate, north, belongs to his son-in-law. Cornelius Odell, Esqr.

The roads leading east of the Saw Mill valley, intersect with the Sprain valley road, which runs nearly north and south.

The Sprain river, called by the Indians, Ar7ne?iperal, rises in two springs north of Thirty Deer Ridge ; the west branch in Wolf Swamp.''' The other called the Grassy Sprain, on the lands of widow Underbill. These two springs flowing south, intersect a little east of Benj. Fowler's. They again divide at the northern extremity of Thirty Deer Ridge, and running through two different vales again meet nearly opposite the Cat rocks, so called from the abundance of wild cat that once frequented the hill.