When the anniversary of the tragedy approached, he would shut himself in his room, and refuse to see his most intimate acquaintances ; and at all times his friends avoided speaking of the American revolution in his presence. The body of Jenny was buried on her brother's land: it was re-interred at Fort Edward in 1826, with imposing ceremonies: and again in 1852, her remains found a new resting-place in a

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beautiful cemetery, half-way between Fort Edward aud Sandv Hill. Her grave is near the entrance ; and upon a plain white marble stone, six feet in height, standing at its head, is the following inscription : --

"Here rest the remains of Jane M'Crea, aged 17; made captive and murdered by a band of Indians, while on a visit to a relative in the neighbourhood, A.D. 1777. To commemorate one of the most thrilling incidents in the annals of the American revolution, to do justice to the fame of the gallant British officer to whom she was affianced, and as a simple tribute

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to the memory of the departed, this stone is erected by her niece, Sarah Hanna Payne, a.d. 1852."

No relic of the olden time now remains at Fort Edward, excepting a few logs of the fort on the edge of the river, some faint traces of the embankments, and a magnificent Balm-of-Gilead tree, which stood, a sapling, at the water-gate, when Putnam saved the magazine. It has three huge trunks, spri'nging from the roots. One of them is more than half decayed, having been twice riven by lightning within a few years. Upon Rogers' s Island, in front of the town, where armies were encamped.