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(CANADA.) Shafford's Narrative . . . Just Published, a Narrative of the Life and Extraordinary Adventures of . . . the Dutch Hermit. Illustrated broadside, 18 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches; folds, minor dampstaining and wear. (MRS) [New York, 1840]
A promotional broadside for the pamphlet "Narrative of the Extraordinary Life of John Conrad Shafford." The tale is summarized at length in this broadside, being the story of an emigrant to Canada whose 15-year-old daughter was captured by Indians. Though rescued, "in consequence of the most shameful and beastly treatment that she had received from the merciless savages, she expired, a wretched victim to their barbarity, three weeks after her liberation." Shafford then lived for fifty years as a hermit on the outskirts of Dundee, Quebec, just over the New York line. The broadside is illustrated with a woodcut of Shafford at his crude cabin, and of his daughter being led off on horseback by six Indians. The pamphlet is described in Howes S322 and in Ayer's Captivity Narratives 213, but the broadside is apparently unrecorded--none others are found in OCLC or auction records. Provenance: Swann sale, 16 October 1975, lot 210, to Milton R. Slater.
