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• Nathan Stanton, junior, died recently. He remembered distinctly that the elk was found in Liberty and the surrounding country several years after his father went there to live. In 1799, when he was seven years old, his father engaged in hunting these animals on the Blue mountain, with Robert Maffitt and Captain Ichabod Benton, of Benton Hollow. They started their dogs, and soon saw a very large elk running before them towards Brodhead pond. It was a truly noble animal, and seemed to pass along with the fleetness of the wind. As it neared the pond, it was so close to one of the hunters who was watching, that he fired at it, and wounded it mortally. Nevertheless, it plunged into the water, and swam for the opposite shore. The hunters, with a canoe or dug-out, followed it, and after an exciting chase, and before the elk reached land, it was captured. Both the elder and younger Stanton were expert hunters, and if their adventures while in pursuit of game could be written, they would make a popular volume.*[Hunters of Sullivan.]