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and proceeded along its eastern shore as far as 
Fort Edward, where it is lost to the view, for 
the road still runs on towards the north, whilst 
the river takes a sudden bend to the west. 
Fort Edward was dismantled prior to the 
late American war ; but the opposite armies, 
during that unhappy contest, were both in 
•the neighbourhood. Many of the people, 
whom we found living here, had served as 
soldiers in the army, and told us a number of 
interesting particulars relative to several events 
which happened in this quarter. The landlord 
of the tavern where we stopped, for one, re¬ 
lated all the circumstances attending Miss 
M f Crea’s death, and pointed out on a hill, not 
far from the house, the very spot where she 
was murdered by the Indians, and the place 
of her interment. This beautiful young lady 
had been engaged to an officer in General 
Burgoyne's army, who, anxious for her safety, 
as there .were several marauding parties going 
about the neighbourhood where she lived, 
sent a'party of trusty Indians to escort her to 
the camp. These Indians had partly executed 
their commission, and were approaching with 
their chai’ge in sight of the British camp, 
when they were met by another set of Indians 
belonging to a different tribe, that was--also 
attending the British army at this lime. In 
a few minutes it became a matter of dispute 
