Since  the  publication  of  the  above  account  a  most  singular  and  remarkable
discovery  has  been  made  confirming  the  tradition  as  an  historical  fact.  This
is  the  letter  of  Rev.  Mr.  Newman,  quoted  on  a  previous  page,  which  gives
the  names  of  the  killed  in  Pierce's  fight.  The  fact  that  the  medical  students,
from  curiosity  or  to  verify  the  tradition,  or  other  motives,  did  visit  the  spot
and  exhume  the  bodies,  and  prove  their  identity  by  that  of  Benjamin  Buck-
land  (or  Bucklin),  of  Rehoboth,  from  his  unusually  large  frame  and  "  double
set  of  teeth  all  around,"  has  also  been  substantiated.  What  is  still  more
remarkable  than  the  discovery  of  the  letter,  the  author  met  a  physician  soon
after  the  publication  of  this  history,  in  1834,  who  took  pains  to  state  that  he
had  read  the  account  of  "  Nine  Men's  Misery,"  and  was  able  to  testify  that
it  was  substantially  correct,  as  he  was  one  of  the  "'medical  gentlemen"
present,  and  aided  in  the  exhumation  and  finally  examined  the  bones.  Hav-
ing this  statement  directly  from  his  own  mouth,  it  is  personal  knowledge  of
the  event,  so  far  as  this  fact  shows.
