The history of the borders is filled with legends of the sufferings of isolated families, during the troubled scenes of colonial warfare. Those which we now offer to the reader, are distinctive in many of their leading facts, if not rigidly true in the details.

Perhaps this story is obnoxious to the charge of a slight anachronism, in representing the activity of the Indians a year earlier than any were actually employed in the struggle of 1775.

During the century of warfare that existed between the English and French colonies, the savage tribes were important agents in furthering the views of the respective belligerents.

-- James Fenimore Cooper