In 1707, young Sarah Noble and her father traveled through the wilderness to build a new home for their family. "Keep up your courage, Sarah Noble," her mother had said, but Sarah found that it was not always easy to feel brave inside. The dark woods were full of animals and Indians, too, and Sarah was only eight!

This is a true story... Sarah Noble was a real little girl who came, in 1707, to cook for her father while he built the first house in New Milford. Most of New Milford settlers came from Milford, Connecticut, but John Noble came from Westfield, Massachusetts. The story happened in Connecticut but it might have happened in many other places in America. Stories like this, of faith and courage and friendship, live a long time and are told and retold. The settlers of New Milford dealt fairly with the Indians, according to the standards of their time, and were always friendly with them.

Sometimes the story is told that John Noble left Sarah with the Indians while he went to guide men to Albany. When Sarah grew up, she taught what was probably the first school in the town. She also married. The records say, too, that Sarah continued to be friendly with the tall Indian who 'loved her as he did his own children.'