ar-
rival of the vessel in Ireland. He was ne\er heard of afterward.
HISIOrwY OF ADDISON COUXTY. b-J
All these men are believed to be now dead. The deaths of those
known are as follows : Nathan Griswold, died at Waltham,
July 17, 1811, aged 85 years; David GiaswoLD, at New Haven,
August 11, 1820, in his 60th year; Adonijaii Griswold, at
Green County, Illinois, in 1847, aged 88 years ; Eli Roberts, at
Vergennes, in 180G, age unknown; Durand Roberts, at Ferris-
burgh, in 1817, aged 57 years ; Peter Ferris, at Panton, in
1811, aged 92 years ; Squirw Ff.hris, at Vergennes, March 12,
1849, aged 87 years."
The follovriiig information was communicated by MiLo Stow,
Esq., of Wcybridge, son of Clark Stow, one of the captives men-
tioned below, and published in the Middlebury Register, August
30, 1854. A shortmemorandum, Avhich we have seen in their
family records, of their capture, imprisonment, and the death of
David Stow, in the hand-writing of Clark Stoav, authenticates
the principal facts.
'* Noveinbor 8, 1778, a marauding party of British, Indians
and tories, invaded the fjuiet homes of four families in this vicinity,
being the only inhabitants in Wcybridge, burned their houses and
effects, killed their cattle and hogs, and took Thomas Sanford,
and his son Robert, David Stow^ and his son Clark, Claudius
Brittel and his son Claudius, and Justus Sturdevant, and car-
ried them prisoners to Quebec. The four wives and their young
children, for eight or ten days, occupied an out-door cellar of Mr.
Sanford, at this place, till our troops from Pittsford came to their
rescue. David Stow died in prison, December 31st, 1778.
Thomas Sanfokd, and two others from