On This Day: March 6, 1758

The below is from Thomas St. John’s Brattleboro History site, linked here.

He quotes from an article by local historian Charles C. Frost, in the Vermont Record and Farmer, March 31, 1876, and also printed in the Vermont Phoenix March 31, 1876.

There will be much more shared here shortly, with a podcast from the upcoming public launch of the Brattleboro Words Project Trail.

"Monday, March ye 6, 1758, Capt. Moor, with his son Benjamin, were killed, and Ben's wife and two children were taken captives by the Indians."

Ben's wife was sister to the wife of Col. Sargeant, and his children must have been very young as they had been married but a few years. It seems she soon regained her liberty for we read it in the same record, "Jan. 26, 1764, the widow Marget Moor was married to Moses Johnson by the reverent Mr. Gay of Hinsdell."

This Capt. Moor, or Fairbanks Moor, was brother to Mrs. Kathan, the mother of the wife of Col. John Sargeant. He and his son Benjamin lived at that time, and were first proprietors on the farm comprising the meadows now owned by the Insane Asylum, just north of that institution.

They were killed in a skirmish, and also many Indians, whose bones which have been exhumed from time to time by plowing or digging on these premises, are supposed to be their remains.