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as a soldier in the continental army at the 

 commencement of the present war, and 

 served fifteen months. Having been pro- 

 perly discharged, I have since married, have 

 a family, and am in communion with the 

 church. 



"To return. The party by whom we 

 were made prisoners had taken some horses, 

 and left them at the glades we had passed 

 the day before. They had followed on 

 our tracks from these glades ; on our return 

 to which, we found the horses and rode. 

 We were carried to Wachatomakak, a town 

 of the Mingoes and Shawanese. I think it 

 was on the third day we reached the town ; 

 when we were approaching which, the 

 Indians, in whose custody we were, began 

 to look sour, having been kind to us before, 

 and given us a little meat and flour to eat, 

 which they had found or taken from some of 

 our men on their retreat. This town is 

 small, and we were told was about two 

 miles distant from the main town, to which 

 they meant to carry us. 



