DELAWARE COUNTY. 131 tliem valuable. The. first night, the Indians with their pri- soner, encamped but a short distance from the residence of Mr. Rose, and in the morning one of the cows was found to have strayed for home. Young Rose was sent back after the missing cow alone, but with the injunction, ^^That if he did not return immediately with the cow, they would return and murder them all, and burn their buildings. The boy related to his mother all that had happened, and showed very little inclination to return to his captors ; but knowing how well the Indians were apt to execute their threats, she insisted with heroic fortitude, upon his immediate return into captivity with the missing cow. He accompanied the Indians to Niagara, and after a prolonged captivity of three years, was once more permitted to return to his friends at Colchester, where he spent the remainder of his days : he died many years since. We have been favored with the following correspondence, which, although unconnected with the history of the county, except in a general sense^ is, nevertheless, worthy of preservation. The following are copies of the letters : "Middle Fort, Schoharie, July 19th, 1780. Dear Colonel : — By express just now received, yours of the 17th inst. came — am sorry to understand that the enemy have burnt Germantown, but at the same time am glad to hear that the Serjeant's party of your regiment behaved so well as to oppose those infernal wretches against that fortification. Last night received information from Colonel Wimple, of Schenectady, that a party of tories were gathering at one Captain Pall's, Beaver-dam, in order to go olf and join Butler and Brant at Niagara; accordingly we have dispatched this morning a party in pursuit of them — ^just now received infor- mation that three of the fort/ j^arty are taken by a detachment of Colonel Wimple's regiment, this morning at three o'clock. '^If anything extraordinary should offer, you maybe assured
