j¹    the savage    horde rushed into the

I''    respective    garrisons, and com-

menced their work of death and
¹    cruelty.

Major Waldron, now advanced
in life to the age of eighty years,
awakened by the noise made by
the Indians coming into his apart-
ment, jumped out of bed, and with
his sword, drove them through
two or three doors; but, as he
was returning for other arms, he
was stunned by a blow from a
hatchet, and dragged into the hall,
and seated in an elbow chair, and
insultingly asked “ Who shall
judge Indians now?” Other cruel
indignities were inflicted on him,
such as that they passed around
him, and cut him across the belly
and breast, with their knives, each
saying “I cross out my account.”

I;    By loss of blood he soon fell to

j |    the floor, and death ended his mis-

j i    ery. After killing his son-in-law,

1    Abraham Lee, pillaging the house

and setting it on fire, they took
Lee’s daughter, with several oth-
ers, and left.

Otis’s garrison shared the same
fate. He was killed, with several
others, and his wife and child
were carried away. Heard’s garri-
son was saved by the barking of a
dog, just as the Indians were en-
j    tering. Elder Wentworth pushed

tjij    them out, and shut the gate, and

I    held it till the- people within were

j    alarmed, and hastened to the de-

fence. Coffin’s house was sur-
I    prised, but as the Indians had no

I    enmity against him, they spared

j    his life, and the lives of his family,

^!    and contented themselves by pil-

laging the house. They then went
¹    to the house of his son, who had

cautiously refused to admit the
!^!    squaws, in the evening, and

demanded him to surrender,
promising him quarter. He re-
fused their offer, and determined
to defend his house, till they
brought his father before his eyes,
and threatened to murder him.
Filial affection broke his first reso-
lution, and he surrendered. Both
families were put into a deserted
house, with the intention of reserv-
ing them for prisoners, but the
Indians were so intent on plunder-
ing, they suffered them to make
their escape.

In this attack twenty-three per-
sons were killed, and twenty-nine
were captivated. Five or six
houses, with the mills, were burn-
ed. This surprise was so adroitly
planned, and so expeditiously car-
ried into effect, that, before the in-
habitants in ~>ther parts of the
town were apprised, the Indians
had made good their escape, with
their prisoners and booty.

In 1691, a party of Indians fired
upon a young man, in the woods
near the settlement The Indians
were pursued by a body of the
citizens, and nearly all were
either killed or wounded. In 1696,
three persons were Wiled and
several wounded and taken pris-
oners, as they were returning
from church. In 1704, the people
were waylaid as they were coming
from meeting, and one Mark Giles
killed. William Pearl and Na-
thaniel Tibbetts were killed in
1706, and Jacob Garland shar 'd
the same fate in 1710. In the
spring of 1711 and 1712, an attack
was made on the town, and a Mr
Tuttle killed. In August, 1723,
Mr. Joseph Ham was killed, and
three of his children carried off
by the Indians. It would require
a large volume to fully detail all