If you read the town histories, these sorts of things happened all the time back in the day:
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This story presents a disappearance and death as a casual, common, corner-of-the-next-field sort of experience. ย It perhaps explains a bit of the early settlers’ readiness to see ghosts & shades everywhere… ย (See also: John Hodgdon’s ghost story)
4 July 1812
