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56 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL CO.LLECTIONS.

offered to him and other persons a tract of land ten miles in
length, which was accepted, and the General Court subsequently
confirmed the deed. The town was named Lancaster, in the
present county of Worcester, Massachusetts. (Tohn Prescott
had occasion to use this gun during Icing Phillip's Indian War
of 1675. On one occasion, as tradition has it, a number of
Indians made their appearance at Prescott's old mill, hoisted the
water-gate, when Prescott took this gun, heavily loaded, and
started towards the mill, when the Indians retired to the hills
close by; .Prescott having fixed the mill, thought it prudent to
retrace his steps, but did so backwards, with his eye upon the
foe, until he reached his house, when the Indians raised a whoop,
when Prescott concluded to give them a specimen of his gun-
manship; and as he shot, they scampered off. Afterwards visit-
ing the spot mhere the Indians were when he shot at them, blood
was found upon the ground. The Indians ever after kept clear
of the Prescott neighborhood. Mr. Prescott had at least seven
children; and anlong them was Hon. Benj. Prescott, the father of
Col. Wm. Prescott, who commanded at Bunker Hill, and gr~nd-
father of Judge Wm. Prescott, of Boston, and great grandfather
of Wm. H. Prescott, the historian. The old gun in question was
given by Prescott to his daughter Tabitha, wife of Silas Brigham,
who in licr old age gave it to her grandson Prescott Brigham,
born in 1780, nom a resident of Sauk county, Wisconsin, and by
him prcsented to the Society. Prescott Brigham is the elder
brother of the pioneer settler of Dane county, Col. Ebenezer
Brigham, of Blue Mounds.
RELICS OF TIIE BLACK HATVK War.--A rifle barrel, and a
bsyonet, found on or near the Bad Ax battle ground, presentedi.
by BENJAMIN RODGERS and family, who found them.
A RELIC OP TIIE SCOTCH REBELLION.--A portion of an
old red silk flag, bearing date in gilt figure^ 1719, with thc Latin
motto, Nemo me impune Eacessit-No ONE PROVOI~ES ME WITS
IMPUNITY; with the Scotch thi~ltle, in gilt, also yet remaining.
This was the motto of the ancient Order oT the Thistle, to the
rough naturc of which it has significant allusion. The Order af