Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . rallel. The blackened ruins ofFort Mimms held the bones of nearly three hundred victims of savageferocity! MOODY, THE JERSEY HEPUGEE. In about the central part of Sussex County, New Jersey, two milessouth of the village of Newton, the county seat, are tv»0 ponds orbodies of water, which go by the name of the Big and LittleMuckshaw. The lower or Little Muckshaw, loses itself at itswestern extremity in a marsh or swamp, which is almost
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . rallel. The blackened ruins ofFort Mimms held the bones of nearly three hundred victims of savageferocity! MOODY, THE JERSEY HEPUGEE. In about the central part of Sussex County, New Jersey, two milessouth of the village of Newton, the county seat, are tv»0 ponds orbodies of water, which go by the name of the Big and LittleMuckshaw. The lower or Little Muckshaw, loses itself at itswestern extremity in a marsh or swamp, which is almost impassable,except after a long drought. This vicinity possesses some consider-able interest, from having been the haunt of one of those fiends in MOODY, THE JERSEY REFUGEE. 16t human shape, who preyed upon the substance of the patriotic citizensof the neighborhood during that dark and gloomy period in ourRevolutionary contest, when even the Father of his country waswrapped in despondency at the gloomy prospect for the future. Bonnel Moody was a ruffian of the deepest dye, and possessed ofall those qualities which constitute an accomplished freebooter and. -^^ > highwayman. He was shrewd, cunning, ^—^/iJCt^^ ^^ artful as a fox ; energetic and determined,J :, !/r ^^- t-^ ^ — in the pursuit of an object; void of all pity or ^^ remorse ; avaricious as a miser ; and with a brute courage that madehim formidable in combat; he was a dangerous enemy in the midstof the inhabitants of Sussex County, as they learned to their costduring the war. His place of retreat, or rather his lair—for it was more like thehaunt ot some wild beast than the abode of human beings—was onthe west side of the swamp above mentioned, where nature seemedto have provided him with a retreat more impregnable than art couldpossibly have furnished him withput her aid. A point of land pro- 168 MOODY, THE JERSEY REFUGEE. jects into the western side of ttie marsh, affording only a verynarrow and difficult f
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