The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . 1706, when about twenty ofthe Indians fell upon ten Exeter menas they were mowing in a field be-tween Exeter and the Lamprey Matoon and his son, Hu-bertus, Robert Barber and SamuelPease were killed. Edward Hall,Samuel Mighill and a mullatto weretaken captive, and Joseph Hall, JohnTaylor and another escaped, althoughJohn Taylor was badly wounded. Ed-ward Hall and Samuel Mighill wereafterward recaptured. On June 11,1709, Ephraim Folsom, Sr., was killedby the Indians while riding betw
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . 1706, when about twenty ofthe Indians fell upon ten Exeter menas they were mowing in a field be-tween Exeter and the Lamprey Matoon and his son, Hu-bertus, Robert Barber and SamuelPease were killed. Edward Hall,Samuel Mighill and a mullatto weretaken captive, and Joseph Hall, JohnTaylor and another escaped, althoughJohn Taylor was badly wounded. Ed-ward Hall and Samuel Mighill wereafterward recaptured. On June 11,1709, Ephraim Folsom, Sr., was killedby the Indians while riding betweenExeter and Colonel Hiltons garrison. The two principal garrisons aboutthe Lamprey River district during these troublous times seem to havebeen Smiths garrison at Lubberlandand Col. Winthrop Hiltons. OnJ^Iarch 4, 1701-02, Captain PeterCoffin was ordered by the provincialgovernment to send two scouting menfrom Exeter to Smiths garrison, andCaptain Woodman of Oyster Riverwas ordered to do the same daily un-til further instructed. Wentworth Cheswell is quoted asan authoritv for the following: In. Old Stone Hall 1723, two brothers, Aaron and SamuelTaylor, resided in what is now knownas Hallsville. In common with theirneighbors, they withdrew at nightfallto the shelter of the garrison, but onthe night of August 29, Aarons fam-ily failed so to do. Although therehad been no recent signs of hostil-ities on the part of the Indians, itappears that their movements wereclosely watched and, on this ill-fatednight, a war party of eighteen, di-vided into two groups, simultaneouslyfell upon the homes of these brothers,but finding the house of Samuel de-serted, he having retired within thegarrison, as was his custom, the at-tacking Indians joined their comradesat the home of Aaron. His wife andtwo children, attempting to flee, werecaptured and carried into captivity,while the father and his twelve-yearold daughter made an heroic defenseof their home, yielding at last to thevastly superior num
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