Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1877 — The Stealing of Stark’z Horse. [ARTICLE]

The Stealing of Stark’z Horse.

A readable article on the Battle of Bennington and its particular hero, General Stark, is published in Harper’s Magazine for September. We find in it this advertisement, showing that Stark’s horse was lost while he was engaged in a reeonnoisance on foot during the action. The “ad” originally appeared in the Connecticut Courant (ancestor of the Hartford Courunt) for October 7, 1777: TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. Stole from me the subscriber, from Walloomscock, in the time of action, the 16th of August last, a brown mare, live years old, had a star In her forehead. Also, a doe-skin seated saddle, blue housing trim’d with white, and a curbed bridle. It is earnestly requested of all committees of safety and others in authority, to exert themselves to recover said thief and mare, so that he may be brought to justice, and the mare brought to me; and the person whoever he be, shall receive th# above ' reward for both, and for the mare alone one naif of that sum. How scandalous, how disgraceful and ignominious it must appear to all friendly and generous souls to have such sly, artful, designing villains enter into the field in the time of action in order to pillage, pilfer and plunder from their brethren when engaged in battle., John Stark, B. D. G. Bennington, 11th Sept. 1877.