survivor. * Several of these prisoners received pensions
from the general Government, but Squire Ferris, their companion in
sufierings, though poor and needy, and though an applicant for
many years, has never received the bounty of his country.'' Besides
those mentioned above, the following persons, of whose captivity we
have no definite information, were taken and carried to Quebec at
the same time : Benjamin Kellogg and Joseph Everest, of Addison.
I\iajor Orin Field, of Cornwall, has furnished us vath a detailed
and interesting account of the capture and imprisonment of the
late Benjamin Stevens, of that town, as he received it from Mr.
Stevens, a relative, in whose family he resided. He vras captured
with three others, in U boat on Lake Champlain, near Split Rock,
in Charlotte, in May, 1779. Being pursued by the tories and
Indians from theshore, and one of the men, Jonathan Bowley,
being killed by a shot from the pursuers, they surrendered. Ste-
vens was then seventeen years old and resided in Rutland County,
lie not then residing m this County, and therefore not strictly
within our province, we give only an abstract of Major Field's
narrative. The prisoners were taken to Chamblee, " thrust into a
small prison, ironed two together and fed for nine days on no other
food than dry peas uncooked. From thence they were taken to
Quebec, where Mr. Stevens spent three Nevf Year's days in one
room." Twice they made their escape, and after traveling a long
time in a destitute and suffering condition, ^t one time in the dead of
winter, and a part of the time living on roots and the bark of trees,
until one