eer of Boston, Captain
John Grimes, Master, mounting 20 nine pounders and manned with 160 men
landed on Sandwich Bay, Labrador, at Captain George Cartwright's
station, took his brig, _The Countess of Effingham_, loaded her with
his fish and provisions and sent her off to Boston. Cartwright not
unnaturally said: "May the Devil go with them." "The _Minerva_ also
took away four Eskimo to be made slaves of." W. G. Gosling,
_Labrador_, Toronto, n. d., pp. 192, 244, 245, 333.

[34] See _Canadian Archives_, B. 61, p. 83, where he is called a
Negro. _Ibid._, B. 158, p. 261, where he is called a mulatto.

[35] _Canadian Archives_, B. 215, p. 236.

[36] The Definitive Treaty of Peace between the mother country and her
revolted colonies, now become the United States of America, was signed
at Paris, September 3, 1783, but it had been incubating for months
before that date.

[37] It may not be out of place to give some account of the capture by
Indians of Thomas Ridout, afterwards Surveyor General and Legislative
Councillor of Upper Canada. His story is given in his own words by his
granddaughter Lady Edgar in her interesting _Ten Years of Upper
Canada_.

Thomas Ridout, born in Dorsetshire, when twenty years of age came to
Georgia in 1774. After trading for a few years he left Annapolis,
Maryland, in 1787 for Kentucky with letters of introduction from
George Washington, Colonel Lee of Virginia and other gentlemen of
standing. Sailing with Mr. Purviance, his man James Black and two
other men towards the Falls of the Ohio, the party was taken by a band
of about twenty Indians. Ridout was claimed by an elderly man,
apparently a chief, who protected him from injury, but could not save
his hat, coat and waistcoat. Soon he saw tied two other young men who
had been taken that morning and set aside for death. Ridout was able
to secure their release. The Indians were Shawanese, Pottawatamies,
Ottawas and Cherokees. One prisoner, William Richardson Watson, said
to be an Englishman but who had lived for some years in the United
States, they robbed of 700 guineas and then burnt to death. Purviance,
they beat to death but Ridout was saved by the Indian who claimed him
as his own. A white man, Nash, about twenty-two who had been taken by
the Indians when a child and had become a chief, encouraged him and
told him that he would be taken to Detroit where he could ransom
himself. He was more than once within a hairsbreadth of death but at
len