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On Saturday last MILES G- DOWNS, Printer„In Cherry Valley, Otsego county, N. Y. on Saturday the 5th of January, Hugh Mitchell, aged 101 years and nine months. The deceased was a native of Carrickfergus, Ireland, and emigrated to this country about the year 1764.— At the time of the Indian massacre in this place, in November, 177d, a party of Savages burst into his house, and in a most barbarous and shocking manner, murdered his wife and four children, and after setting fire to the house, carried off his then only remaining child into captivity;* he himself only escaped death or captivity by running up a ravine* near his house, in which the bushes were so thick that he was enabled to elude his pursuers. After the enemy withdrew from the. place he was compelled alone to put the bodies of his wife and children upou a sled and draw them a mile* to the fort, for interment.•This child was recovered, and survives him.
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Wilmington American Watchman
Wilmington, Delaware, US
Tue, Jan 22, 1822
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