en-
camped there for the night, and utterly destroyed them all. Two
hundred horses were turned into his meadows and grain fields, and
they were wholly ruined. Gen. Fraser had the civility to promise
indemnity, but that promise yet waits for its fulfilment.
yO mSTOUY UV ADD 13 J X COUNTY.
'•In the autumn of 1770. Mr. Ferris .lud his sou, Si^uirc Fori-M,
assisted ia the escape of Joseph Everest iiud l*hincas Spalding from
the British schooner Maria of sixteen guns, then lying at anchor ofi"
Arnold's Bay. Tlicse two men -were Americans, who had been
seized in Panton and Addison, and made prisoners for favoring the
American cause. Both "ivere taken from the schooner in a dark
night and conveyed on sliorc in a small canoe. Squire Ferris, the
son, was also of a small party in the winter of177G-77, who seized
upon two Englishmen, supposed to ])c spies, near the nrjuth of Otter
Creek, and delivered them into the hands of (Jen. St. Clair at Ti-
conderoga."
"In the year 1778, the British made a generiil capture of all the
Americans they could reach on tlic shores of Lake Charaplain, who
were known to be friendly to the revolutionary cause. In Novem-
ber of that year, i^Ir. Ferris and his son started upon a dc>?r hunt,
on the west side of ttie lake. When near the mouth of Butnam'.s
Creek, about six miles south of Crown Point, they were seized by
a body of British soldiers and tories, conunanded by Colonel Carle-
ton, and carried on board the schooner j\Iaria. then lying at Crown
Point, near the mouth of Bulv,;iggy Bay. They were the first
prisoners taken in the