History of the town of Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, from its first settlement, to 1882 . n time abundantly corroborate. BEAR FIGHTS. The most notable of single-handed encounters withwild beasts which have come down to us by oral tra-dition were the fights which DeaconJohn Cass and Captain Amos Boornseverally had with bears. Deacon John Cass, keeper of thefamous inn where the first town meet-ings were held, had made a clearingof several acres, had built his houseand stocked his farm with cattle,sheep, and swine, which nightly werebrought to the farmyard and put in^^=j places of com
History of the town of Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, from its first settlement, to 1882 . n time abundantly corroborate. BEAR FIGHTS. The most notable of single-handed encounters withwild beasts which have come down to us by oral tra-dition were the fights which DeaconJohn Cass and Captain Amos Boornseverally had with bears. Deacon John Cass, keeper of thefamous inn where the first town meet-ings were held, had made a clearingof several acres, had built his houseand stocked his farm with cattle,sheep, and swine, which nightly werebrought to the farmyard and put in^^=j places of comparative safety. Such~ were the surroundings, when earlyone morning in the month of April, about the breakof day, he was suddenly startled by a noise indicat-ing disturbance in the folds. Hastening at once tolearn the cause of the commotion, he discovereda huge black bear by his sheep-pen trying to helphimself to a bit of mutton, for which his appetite,no doubt, had a keen relish. Mr. Cass, impul-sive and courageous, attacked bruin with a pitch-fork near at hand, and for a while the result of the. TOWN OF RICHMOND. 47 contest was uncertain. The bear stoutly resisted,warding off the blows as a bear knows how, until,by a lucky thrust, the beast was impaled on the tinesof the fork, and even then Mr. Cass might not havecome off the victor if his invincible courage had notbeen supplemented by great strength and persever-ance ; but as it was, these proved more than a matchfor his brute antagonist. The combat which Captain Amos Boom had witha bear is of nearly equal interest to the one alreadynarrated, as appears by the following extract from apaper containing a brief history of the East District,No. , by Silas Whipple, 1858 : — One day Mr. Boorn observed a huge bear near the spot wherethis house stands (School-house No. 13) making preparations tofeast on some of his domestic animals, and as he did not feel dis-posed to be an eje-witness of such an exhibition without taking anact
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