. Annals of Iowa. ne out to milk; Mrs. Cummings was shot dead, and herhusband shot through the arm but escaped to the woods. Af-ter a bloody fight they retreated. This was the garrison houseof John Cummings where Samuel French and his family weregarrisoned. The few families lived in garrison houses; thatis, houses surrounded with palisades, or a Avail of stone ortimber rising to the roof. Through this wall there was a gatemade of plank and secured with iron bolts. Port holes weremade in various places, and the underbrush was cleared awayfrom the vicinity of the garrison in order that the appro
. Annals of Iowa. ne out to milk; Mrs. Cummings was shot dead, and herhusband shot through the arm but escaped to the woods. Af-ter a bloody fight they retreated. This was the garrison houseof John Cummings where Samuel French and his family weregarrisoned. The few families lived in garrison houses; thatis, houses surrounded with palisades, or a Avail of stone ortimber rising to the roof. Through this wall there was a gatemade of plank and secured with iron bolts. Port holes weremade in various places, and the underbrush was cleared awayfrom the vicinity of the garrison in order that the approachof the enemy might be seen. Those were terrible times, butpeace was at length insured by the treaty of Utrecht, April 11,1713, the doors of the garrisons of Dunstable were thrown opennnd general prosperity began. Hostilities were again resumedin 1721—during which time Lieut. Ebenezer French, son ofSamuel French, was killed by the Indians. Eight of the deadwere l)uried in one grave, among them Ebenezer French house, Dunstable, Mass. Built about 1720. HISTORY OF Til 10 FRENCH FAMILY 501 Their ^^ravestone, which still stands, is marked MementoMori. Here lies the body ot* Mr. Thomas Lund who departedthis life Sept. 5, 1724, in the 42d year of his age. This manwith seven more that lies in this grave was slew all in a dayby the Indians. In the adventures of the French War in 1775, in whichJohn Stark commenced his career in connection with the menof Dunstable, the names of Lovewell, Blanehard, French, etc.,are prominent. There are five Frenches mentioned in the battle of BunkerHill, Eleazer, who had an arm shot off, picked it up and boreit as a trophy from the field; and Samuel, Jonathan, Williamand Jonas, brothers of another family, did good service on thateventful day. The former discharged his gun with deliberateaim sixteen times. He was a shoemaker by trade, servedthrough the war and died at Dunstable at an advanced Ebenezer French, son of Samuel,^ was als
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