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- Verify the following who surely must be related to Mr. Woodruff. Duffins Creek, is located in Pickering Twp. of Durham Co., Ontario.
. 1805 Nov 2 - Heroic action of an Upper Canada Woman
Mrs. Munger of Duffins' creek, in the township of Pickcairn, 23 miles from York, hearing her neighbor, Mrs. Woodruff, hallow out for help, immediately took down her husband' gun & ran to her assistance; when she arrives she was informed that a very large bear had taken off a hug into the bush. His rout being shown her, this heroine immediately pursued & found the destroyer in the act of devouring the hog, upon which she rested her fun on a stump & short Run through the head: on weighing the bear, it proved the largest that had been killed that township. From York Gazette, Upper Canada. [Toronto].
Ref: Evening Post New York City, 1805.11.2 & Green Mountain Patriot, Peacham, Vermont. 1805.11.12
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