,4© FOX HyNTIIjIG. 



from 1819 to 1823; during that time the neighbors 

 who visited them informed Mrs. Lewis that the 

 ,hous,e was haunted, and asked her if she had 

 never heard at night the fall of a pistol fropi 

 the bed, as it had fallen in the scuffle that took 

 place when Fitzpatrick was captured; but Mrs. 

 Lewis had never heard it. 



Bayard Taylor, in his Story of Kennett, gives a 

 romantic account of this Fitzpatrick, under the 

 name of "Sandy Flash," and of a fox hunt he par^ 

 ticipated in; and Mr. H. G. Ashmead, in his care- 

 fully compiled and interesting History of Delaware 

 County, gives the West Chester version of this 

 man's exploits and haunts in Chester County, 

 under the name of "James Fitzpatrick," and he 

 says that Fitzpatrick was born in the old county 

 of Chester and served his apprenticeship as a 

 blacksmith, and that he first served in the army 

 of the Province, and until he deserted in 1777, 

 after having been flogged for some offence. Mr. 

 Ashmead's account of him is well worth the 

 reading. 



CHAPTER VIIL 



SOME OF THE HUNTS FROM 1853 TO 1860. 



From 1853 up to about the sixties J. Howard 

 Lewis had, each year, a Christmas hunt with the 

 hounds from, his home on the paper mill property, 



