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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] of the dead have ever been held sacred by the most barbarous and savage nations. But here, not being able to accomplish their accursed purposes upon the • Pealxidy's " Life of Putnam." • Charles A. Campbell, in " Magazine of American History " for >l»y 1882. CORTLANDT. 371 living, they wreaked their vengeance on the dead. In many places, the graves in the church-yards were opened, and the bodies of the dead exposed upon the ground for several days. At Alorrissania the family vault was opened, the coffins broken and the bones scattered abroad. At Delancei/s farm, the body of a beautiful young lady, which had been buried for two

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