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��hill rises abruptly, and is yet covered with tim- ber and great rocks. It is several hundred feet high, and from its base still gush the waters of the beautiful spring, just as they did on that fatal morning when its waters were dyed with human blood. Half a mile south, on the Black Fork, lives 3Irs. Sarah Vail, in a cabin alone, which she has occupied fifty-five years. She and her sister, Am}' Whetmox'e, now living in Seneca Count}', are the only surviving members of the Copus family, and were witnesses of the battle. Mrs. A^ail was eighty years old Jan- uary 1, 1880. Her mind is still clear and strong, and she has a vivid roeollectiou of that fearful tragedy.

After the war, the Indians came straggling ])ack, to occupy their old hunting-grounds.

��although but few of them had any fixed resi- dence.

One day, two of them — young men — by the name of Seneca John and Quilipetoxe, came to Mansfield, became intoxicated and quarreled with some white men at William's tavern, be- fore mentioned, which stood on the present site of the North American.

They left about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and, shortly after, were followed by the white men, who vowed vengeance. They overtook them a mile east of town, shot them down, and buried them at the foot of a large maple at the edge of a swamp, thrusting their bodies down deep into the mud. The skeletons are probably there yet. The place is known as '• Spook Hol- low."

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