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- THE WAR OP THE REVOLUTION; ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED PRELIMINARY HISTORICAL ESSAY.
By LORENZO SABINE. ,
BOSTON:
CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN.
MDCCCXLVII
BENJAMIN BECRAFT
A Tory leader, cruel, and noted for deeds of blood. He boasted to his associates, of having assisted to massacre the family of a Mr. Vrooman, in Schoharie, New York. The family, he said, were soon despatched, except a boy of fourteen, who ran from the house, when he started in pursuit, overtook him, and cut his throat, took his scalp, and hung his body across the fence. After the peace, he had the hardihood to return to Schoharie. He was seized, stripped naked and bound to a tree, and whipped nearly to death by ten men, some of whom had been his prisoners, and had heard him recount this exploit. Thus beaten, he was dismissed with a charge never to show himself in that country again, an injunction which he carefully kept.
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