THE BARTIBO«UK FORT. U 



The Stothart family — father, niotlier and two girl^ — were l)urn- 

 ed. The brother, David, l)eino; in Douglastown on 8ome business, 

 esca[)ed. 



Simon Hamilton was away at work. His wife it seems had 

 taken the children, or rather two of them, to an earthen bridge 

 over a (3reek and in some wav preserved them. The other one 

 wandered away and was burned, and the poor woman was found 

 tlie next day sitting in the remain^^ of the old chimney of their 

 house, demented. 



All these bodies were found and biu'ied in the cellar of the Scott 

 house liy this burying committee. 



Peter Blacklock, wife and two children, had tied to the AMr.imichi 

 Kiver, but had l)cen overtaken by the fire on what is now the Shay 

 lot, and were buried where they were found, a palisade fence 

 being put around their graves, which is still standing. 



Wm. Kirkpatrick and sen also tied for the river. The son was 

 killed by a falling tree on the way. The father reached the river 

 badly burned. The son was buried where he fell and a fence 

 isailt around the grave, wliicli is still kept up by those living in the 

 neighborliood. Wm. Kirk])atrick was '^o badly Inirned ttiat he 

 died afterwards in Chatham. He had his will drawn u]) by Rev. 

 J as. Thom])son. and witnessed by Robt. Johnson and Wm. 

 Ch-eighton, leaving his property to the church in Cha.tham and the 

 school in Douglastown. 



