bank. The house went down
and was shattered to pieces, and the cellar and chimney were never found. The
bank of the creek rested on a body of blue clay, which was crushed out by the
incumbent soil and ejected into and across the river, forming a solid and imj"ene-
trable dam, which staj'ed the whole current of the creek, until nine or trn o'clock
the next morning. A similar slide of less extent tcok place since^ near by, on the
farm of B>:xjamin WAi.ra, and near his house.
* Wo have tlie following story from undoubted authority. AVhca Mr. Saxiord
was captured he liad two horses and a colt which wci'c left behind without any
one to take care of them. He returned, as related above, after three 3 cars absence,
expecting to find his horses dead.But he found them alive, except the colt, which
the Indians shot. They had lived on the Beaver Meadows, in t!ie neighborhood,
and were found some distance from wJicre Sanford left them. They had become
■very Avild; but SA.NFOni) had given each of tlicm a name, and wlicn he called
them by their names they came to him nw'i were easily taken, tlicy recognizing
cilli'jr their u:um.s or their mailer's voice.
HislOEY OP ADDISON COUXTY. 8T
tion of Lis Gazetteer. The facts, it is presumed, vrere obtained
from some of the party, as all but one were then alive.
NxVTHAN Smith, Marshall Smith and Joiix Ward, who had
just been married, Avho had ventured to remain on their farms, in
Bridport, while most of the inhabitants had removed, being together
on the 4t}i day of November, 1778, were taken by