stockade at Harmar. The sister was married to Robert
Warth, who was killed by the Indians just outside of the fort,
leaving a wife and one child, Robert Warth, Jr. Peter Lalance
was a comrade of the Warth brothers on their voyages down
the Ohio river to Gallipolis, or French Town, as the Amer-
icans called it. The Warths, George and John were carrying
United States mail in their canoes, and young Lalance was a
companion. The company had to stop over night each trip,
not being able to go all of the distance in one day, and the
place for stopping was at Jacob Roush's, near or at Graham's
Station, Va. Mr. Roush owned a farm and slaves. He had a
family and, as the story goes, a handsome daughter, whose
beauty captivated the heart of Peter Lalance, but he kept his
secret until meeting his mother, when he described mam'selle
to her. "She 's very pretty," summed up his account. "Bring
her here," said his mother; "I can teach her." So, with such
permission, he asked Mr. Roush if he might woo his daughter.
"If she is willing," was the father's consent, for up to this time
the ardent lover had not ventured to propose to the girl. Mat-
ters were arranged for mam'selle to go to Marietta on the
"mail boat," a trusty colored man to accompany the young
woman for her protection. Madame Lalance received her
graciously, and afterwards she was married at her father's
house to Peter Lalance. He located a farm below Bowman's
run, in Ohio, and reared a large family. Communicated by
Mrs. Cynthia Philson, of Racine, Ohio.
Mrs. Mary Lasher was a daughter of Aaron Holt, and his
wife, Elizabeth Holt, and was born in 1803, and came with
her parents to Rutland in 1807. She was married to Charles
Chase in 1823, and had a family of nine children, all of whom
she reared to be respectable and useful citizens. Dr. Owen
Chase, of the West, and Dr. Lyman Chase, of Albany, were
her sons. After the death of Mr. Chase, she married Mr. John
V. Lasher, of Rutland, with whom she lived in social and
