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 he was left a prey to the dogs and crows, to be devoured at their leisure. All traces of the bones are now gone. Eighteen Indians were buried in one pit in an Indian field ; it is still a current tra- ■dition, that the old Sachem haunts the scene of conflict.

"Does fancy's mimic dread pnurtray 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 this 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 \vith a few huzzars. " The Stockbridge Indians, about sixty in number, excellent marksmen, had just joined General Washington's army. Lieut. Col. Simcoe was describing a private road to Lieut. Col. 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 Ipng 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.

In a few daj-s after, they had certain information of the ambuscade, which they so fortunately had escaped : in all probability they owed their lives to the Indians' expectation of surrounding and taking them prisoners "*