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HISTORY OP 'and mount guard at the prison^ determined to have them brought to trial and execution. All this you may depend on for truth^ as it has been in- tercepted in a ship taken a few days ago, bound from England for New York. " I have no more to add but my sympathy for the distresses of your suffering county, and hope that you will be able to give us a good account of some of those villains. My best respects to the old gentleman and your brothers. " I am, dear sir, your friend and servant, HOBERT HARPER. (Superscribed) To Col. John Harper, of Tryon county. " Per favor of Mr. Boone." For the following particulars, the author is indebted to the History of Schoharie, and the narratives of John L. More and others. In the latter part of July, Seth Henry, of whom we have spoken in the narrative of the capture of Cowley and Sawyer, succeeded in capturing William Bouck, together with a female slave belonging to him, and her three children, two sons and one daughter. Mr. Bouck was captured about two miles from the upper fort, where he had gone to do some work on his farm. The prisoners were all bound, and started with their captors for Niagara. The first night they encamped on the Delaware river, and were entertained by one Hugh Rose, a Scotchman, who was favorable to the king, and who furnished them with several days' provisions for their journey to Canada. Shortly after the Indians had left the house of Rose, which was about eight o'clock in the morning, and were pursuing their way down the river, a scout, consisting of Wm. Bouck, jr., son of the prisoner, John Hagidore, Bartholomew C. Vroo- man, and Bartholomew Hagidore, who had been sent out from