Essex ROSEBROOK, Eleazer Vermont Historical Magazine, No. XI, October 1867, pp 1001-1002 (extracted from a section on the history of Guildhall, Essex County, Vermont) Capt. Eleazer ROSEBROOK, apparently one of the most active and useful of the early settlers [of Guildhall, Essex County, Vermont], located in 1778. At first, we believe, he had his residence on the meadow of the DENNISON or CUSHMAN farm, and afterwards lived on what has since been known as the James PERKINS farm, that is now owned and occupied by Stephen AMES, Esq. During the latter part of the Revolution, Mr. [Eleazer] ROSEBROOK was employed in the military service of his county, not in the regular army, but as a scout and ranger. He with a small party went into Canada on a reconnoitering expedition at one time, but after remaining a while, were suspected of being spies, and learning this fact, fled for their lives. They were closely pursued, and obliged to resort to stategem to elude their pursuers. They halted beside a stream near the head waters of the Connecticut [River], built a fire, and then extinguished it with water, then stepped into the stream and followed it for some distance, thus leaving the appearance of having been there so long ago that the enemy concluded it would be useless to continue the chase, and so returned. THOMPSON, in his Gazetteer, states that the Indians were hostile and troublesome, killing and driving off the settlers' cattle, etc., but this is doubtless quite a mistake. They were usually friendly, and committed no acts of hostility, except in one or two individual instances, and were only troublesome in making pretty free use of the settlers' houses for the purpose of staying overnight, and occasionally to "have a drunk." They took rather more liberty in calling at houses from which the man was absent, and as Mr. [Eleazer] ROSEBROOK was much from home in these days, his house was a frequent resort. On one occasion they became so troublesome that Mrs. ROSEBROOK drove them out of the house, except one squaw who was so much intoxicated that she appeared unable to move, and she caught her by the hair of the head and drew her out. This rough handling roused the squaw somewhat, and so improved her power of motion that she was able to throw her hatchet just as Mrs. ROSEBROOK was shutting the door, and cut off the wooden thumbpiece of the latch, but having recovered by morning, and recollecting her improprieties of the night before, the Indian woman came in, confessed her fault, asked pardon, and promised better manners in the future, and ever kept her word. Submitted by Cathy Kubly