The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars . selves duringall the time that the carnage raged fiercest around AVilliams, himself an eye-wdtness of the determinedBenoni efforts to Capture this house, saw the same stebbins. Indian whom he had failed to shoot short- ly before, shot dead from it. Although the gallantStebbins had fallen, and two of his brave comj^anionswere badly wounded, in spite of coaxing, promises, orthreats, to all of which the heroic defenders turned adeaf ear, this one house continued to stand firm as arock in the midst of t
The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars . selves duringall the time that the carnage raged fiercest around AVilliams, himself an eye-wdtness of the determinedBenoni efforts to Capture this house, saw the same stebbins. Indian whom he had failed to shoot short- ly before, shot dead from it. Although the gallantStebbins had fallen, and two of his brave comj^anionswere badly wounded, in spite of coaxing, promises, orthreats, to all of which the heroic defenders turned adeaf ear, this one house continued to stand firm as arock in the midst of the storm of fire and blood surging 1 Colonel Whiting puts the loss at 49 killed, and nearly iro taken. Letter to Gov-ernor Winthrop. Secretary Addington to Winthrop says 57 killed to 90 captives.—Winthrop Papers. 1704] THE SACKING OF DEERFIELD 181 rouiKl it loug after the euemj were masters of the restof the viUage. It was somewhere about eight oclock ^ when theenemys main body moved off toward their last camp,guarding their long train of captives, and loaded down ^. ^ ^^^ A:::i-. EN8I0N SHELDON S HOCSE, DEERnKLn. MASS. with hooty. Aftt-r passin^^ the livcr a halt was made torecover their jiacks, as well as to prrp;irc tlic jirisouersfor the long inarch bcfoic thciu, by making tlicni take otftheir own singes and jnit on Imlian mocassins broughtfor the purpose. Not all the marauders, however, had AccocNTS vary : gome make it earlier, some later. IS2 THK IU)U1)HU \VAU8 OF NKW KNCLAND [1704 iiKircluul olV witli tlieir Ilated toiiH)!iiiU)iis. A ctit;iiuimiiibcr of str;i;4glcrs lagged bchiiul, looking for jJim-der among the smoking ruius. liouvillc darud notdola} his rttreat longer, well knowing that the countrybelow woidd soon be up in arms. In fact, the glare ofthe burning buildings had been seen far down thesnow-bound valley, spreading its tale of blood beforeit in the heavens, and calling every able-bodied man tothe rescue. Among others some sixty mounted menfrom Hatfield were
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