The remains of George Forsyth were found by an Indian the 2d of October, 1776, close by the Prairie Ronde." It seems a singular fatality that the unhappy mother should have been twice called to suffer a similar affliction--the loss of a child in a manner worse than death, inasmuch as it left room for all the horrors that imagination can suggest.

The particulars of the loss of this little brother were these.

As he came from school one evening, he met the colored servant-boy on horseback, going to the common for the cows.

The school-house stood quite near the old fort, and all beyond that, towards the west, was a wild, uncultivated tract called "the Common." The child begged of the servant to take him up and give him a ride, but the other refused, bidding him return home at once.

He was accompanied by two other boys, somewhat older, and together they followed the negro for some distance, hoping to prevail upon him to give them a ride.