. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. emselves in the forests, orfled through the snow to Fort Orange. Adam Vrooman, one of the villagers, saw his wife shot andhis child brained against the door-post, but he fought so des-perately that his assailants promised him his life and liberty ifhe would surrender. His son and negro servant were carriedaway captives. In the morning a small party crossed the river to the houseof Glen. It was loopholed and palisaded, and Captain Glenwas prepared to defend it. The French told him they owedhim a debt for kindness shown to French prisoners in th
. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. emselves in the forests, orfled through the snow to Fort Orange. Adam Vrooman, one of the villagers, saw his wife shot andhis child brained against the door-post, but he fought so des-perately that his assailants promised him his life and liberty ifhe would surrender. His son and negro servant were carriedaway captives. In the morning a small party crossed the river to the houseof Glen. It was loopholed and palisaded, and Captain Glenwas prepared to defend it. The French told him they owedhim a debt for kindness shown to French prisoners in thehands of the Mohawks, and that no harm should come to himor his kindred. Even two or three houses inside the palisadewere saved from the flames because he requested it. The alarm having been given at Orange, fifty young men,under Peter Schuyler, proposed to follow the French in theirretreat. Reinforced by a troop of Mohawk warriors, they fol-lowed them nearly to Montreal, when they fell upon the rear-guard, killing and capturing fifteen or DUUK IN THE GLEN-SANDERS HOUSE 63 1 THE ni:.W YORK . PUBIJC LIBRARY, ASTOrt, LENOX ANDT 11. D r. ^ F ?? 1 u N ri » T 10 N€. Schonovve or Schenectady 65 After a period of heartrending grief and depression, withtrue Dutch grit, the pioneers set to work to rebuild theirruined village; and with the help of their neighbors at Orange,and the friendly Mohawks, they again assumed the title ofthe frontier town of the West, and became the port of entryand departure of produce and supplies by the bateaux andcanoes of the Inland Lock and Navigation Company, until thebuilding of the Erie Canal. In 1819 occurred the great lire, by which disaster the vil-lage—then a city—was again nearly wiped out of whole west end and business portion was destroyed, inall one hundred and sixty-nine houses. There was little, orno insurance, and it was a long time before Schenectady re-covered from the effects of the great fire. It is said that A
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