Within A Few Hours After His Flight, A
Party Of The Penacook Tribe Arrived, And, Not Finding The Object
Of Their Resentment, Burnt His Habitation." Upon The Top Of The
High Bank Here, Close To The River, Was Still To Be Seen His
Cellar, Now Overgrown With Trees.
It was a convenient spot for
such a traffic, at the foot of the first falls above the
settlements, and commanding a pleasant view up the river, where
he could see the Indians coming down with their furs.
The
lock-man told us that his shovel and tongs had been ploughed up
here, and also a stone with his name on it. But we will not
vouch for the truth of this story. In the New Hampshire
Historical Collections for 1815 it says, "Some time after pewter
was found in the well, and an iron pot and trammel in the sand;
the latter are preserved." These were the traces of the white
trader. On the opposite bank, where it jutted over the stream
cape-wise, we picked up four arrow-heads and a small Indian tool
made of stone, as soon as we had climbed it, where plainly there
had once stood a wigwam of the Indians with whom Cromwell traded,
and who fished and hunted here before he came.
As usual the gossips have not been silent respecting Cromwell's
buried wealth, and it is said that some years ago a farmer's
plough, not far from here, slid over a flat stone which emitted a
hollow sound, and, on its being raised, a small hole six inches
in diameter was discovered, stoned about, from which a sum of
money was taken.
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