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the worse for liquor, he visited the house and went 

 to a room where the girl was. Seeing a pair of 

 new shoes, Fitz conceived the idea that it would 

 be well to exchange his old, well-worn pair for 

 them, and, sitting down on the side of the bed, he 

 pulled off his shoes and put on the new pair; as 

 he raised up, the girl, who had gotten up behind 

 him, threw her strong arms around him, pinioning 

 his arms fast to his body. Fitz, thinking it a play- 

 ful joke on her part, tried to rock himself, in a 

 drunken but good-humored manner, from her 

 grasp; the girl, however, held on and calling aloud, 

 the farm hands, or men concealed, rushed in, and 

 overpowering Fitz, bound him with ropes, and he 

 was thus captured and taken to the old borough 

 of Chester, where he was afterwards tried as a 

 highway robber and hung in the year 1778. It is 

 said the girl was either tempted to this act of 

 treachery by the reward offered, or through jeal- 

 ousy from the attentions of Fitz to another girl of 

 the neighborhood. This history is authenticated 

 by having been repeated to boys born soon after 

 the end of the Revolutionary War, and by them 

 handed down in their old age, and it was obtained 

 directly from such men. 



This McAfee property was owned for several 

 years by John Lewis, the father of J. Howard 

 Lewis, and he and his family occupied the house 



