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Excerpt from True Narrative of the Capture of David Ogden, Among the Indians: In the Time of the Revolution; And of the Slavery and Sufferings He Endured, With an Account of His Almost Miraculous Escape After Several Years' Bondage; With Eight Other Highly Interesting Stories of the Revolution, and Tales of Hunters
At night they camped down in the usual way, but on the next day, began to come Within the neighborhood ofa large Indian encampment; as Brant and his Indians began the horrid prisoner yell, giving it as before, in sixteen distinct: parts, and one for the scalp of the deceased Morfat, taking them some time to get through with it. It. Was now but a short time before they came where the Indians were thick enough, at which place, Brant allowed a very singular cere mony to be performed on the persons of the prisoners,which was, to cause them to pass close by where his mother stood, who, as they passed on, gave each of them a terrible blow, as she listed, with quite a heavy pole some ten foot in length, which did not fail to put them to considerable pain. They had all taken this blow but Ogden, who, as it appeared, she did not seem so intent to hit, as she had been the rest, as he was passing by her. This being noticed by Peter, the Indian, who had the care ofthe prisoners, said to her, /cung - gay - iznnoo, tum: which meant this is a prisoner too when bang came the pole, hitting him across the ear, and eye, which hurt-him very much. This was all done by Brant, merely to gratify his mother in her propensity for cruelty, as well as to honor her above the others, or common squaws, in the presence of the multitude.
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Excerpt from True Narrative of the Capture of David Ogden, Among the Indians: In the Time of the Revolution; And of the Slavery and Sufferings He Endured, With an Account of His Almost Miraculous Escape After Several Years' Bondage; With Eight Other Highly Interesting Stories of the Revolution, and Tales of Hunters Wanderings of Ogden's father and family, and final settlement in the wilds of the Susquehannah, but a short time prior to the Revolution. No roads in the country but the Indian trail or war path. Flight of the family, consisting of small children from a place near Huntsville, Otsego Co., N. Y. on account of the murders of Brant's Indians on the breaking out of the Revolution. Some unpublished particulars of the Cherry Valley massacre, which was related by Ogden. Kindness of an Indian, though belonging to Brant's party - to Ogden's father which saved the lives of the family, giving them time to escape. Finds a deserted log house in the woods where he placed his family, somewhere in the now town of Middlefield, Otsego Co., N. Y. Flight of the family a second time, occasioned by, the friendship of a Squaw - who warned them of Brant's plan to destroy Cherry Valley, which saved their lives. Attrocious behavior of the tory Foster, and his final end. Flight of Ogden's father's family a third time, in the midst of a snow storm, with several small children, one of whom was the hero of the following pages. Abuse of the family by a tory woman, during their flight, the father of Ogden not being with them at the time; this was the evening of the day when Cherry Valley was cut off. Ogden, the subject of the narrative, enlists in the army as a volunteer, when but fourteen years old, on the Mohawk. Marched into New-Jersey - saw Major Andre executed - scoured the country of Weschester - returned to Albany, from thence to Fort Stanwix. His capture by a party of Indians and tories, a 150 in number, under the immediate command of Brant, while guarding some choppers in the wo
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