After encountering almost incredible hardships and dangers with a
perseverance which shows how well he appreciated the good qualities of
his stolen helpmate, he reached Montreal and betook himself to the
Governor's residence. Travel-worn, ragged, and wasted with cold and
hunger, he was ushered into the presence of M. Vaudreuil. The courtly
Frenchman civilly received the gift of the bag of snuff, listened to the
poor fellow's story, and put him in a way to redeem his wife without
difficulty. The joy of the latter on seeing her husband in the strange
land of her captivity may well be imagined. They returned by water,
landing at Boston early in the summer.
There is a tradition that this was not the goodwife's first experience of
Indian captivity. The late Dr. Abiel Abbott, in his manuscript of Judith
Whiting's _Recollections of the Indian Wars_, states that she had
previously been a prisoner, probably before her marriage. After her
return she lived quietly at the garrison-house until the summer of the
next year.
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