the above, "svc have received dii'cctly
from Mr. Stow. The prisoners, on their arrival at Quebec, were
for a time kept on board a prison ship ; but v.ere afterwards re-
moved to a prison on land. While there thej dug through the
walls of the prison and escaped, but were retaken and reconuiiitted,
except Thomas Saneoiid and one or two othci-s frora Vermont, who,
after wandering a long time through the Avilderncss of Kew Hamp-
shire and Maine reached their families.* Those Avho were recom-
mitted dug nearly through the wall a second thne, and a large pro-
portion of them, in the spring of 1780, were sent ninety miles
down the St. Lava-encc, and Avcre there set to work. But Clat.k
Stow beinc; then younir, was selected by a French ladv. and cm-
ployed by her as ahouse servant, until he, with the rest, was ex-
ciiangcd and released in 1782. After his release in October he
went to Great Barrington, Mass., to which the family had revnoved,
and in March, 1783, they returned to Y\''cybridge.
The following account of the capture of some of the inhabitants
of Bridport, their imprisonment and escape, w"e have abridged from
the account of Bridport, given by I\Ir. THOMPSON, in the first edi-
Ecenicd to tremble and crack, for wliich the inmates could not account. But in the
OYcninj; they bcc:tnic alarmed, and left tiie liouse, but Mr. Wales stood still on the
ground, ijctwecn nine and ten o'clock in the evening, the land, to the extent of
nsarly two acres, suddenly sank about eighteen feet perpendicularly, the niau
going doAvn with it was not hurt, but escaped to the