ninety miles below Quebec, including their imprison-
ment, they had not changed their clothes, and had few left to bo
changed.
The following graphic account of the capture and imprisonment
of Peter Ferris, and his son Squire Ferris, with some antece-
dent and accompanying events, is an extract from an article pub-
lished in the " Vergennes Vermont er^'''' February 2G, 1845, which
was written by Philip C. Tucker, Esq. The facts contained in
it were communicated to him by Squire Ferris in his lifetime.
" In October, 1776, upon the retreat of General Arnold up
the lake with the American fleet, after the battles fought near Yal-
cour Island, he run the remaining part of his vessels, four gun
boats and the galley, " Congress," which Arnold himself com-
manded, into a small bay, which still bears the name of"Arnold's
Bay," and the shores of which were upon Mr. Ferris's farm.
Some of the remains of those vessels are yet visible, though they
were all partly blown to pieces and sunk when Arnold abandoned
them. An incident of their destruction, not known to history, is
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related bj Squ.re Ferris, a son of Mr. Ferris, then in his four-
tjontli year. Lieutenant Goldsmith of Arnold's galley liad been
severely wounded in the tliigb by a grape shot in the battle near
Valcour Island, and lay wholly helpless on the deck, when the or-
ders were given to blow up the vessels. Arnold had ordered him
to be removed on shore, but by some oversight he was neglected, and
was on the the deck of the galley when the gunner set fire to the
match. lie then