A history of the United States for schools . ater, another of Frontenacs war par-ties laid waste the village of Salmon Falls, in New Hampshire; and shortly after. Fort Loyal,in New standing where now is the foot of India Street in the city of Portland, met with similar treat-ment. Such horrible scenes were repeated from year toyear, and often the frightened people of the exposedvillages were obliged to flee to their blockhouses for de-fense. In 1692, one third of the inhabitants of York, inMaine, were massacred; and, in 1694, more than a hun-dred people, mostly women and children, were slaugh-
A history of the United States for schools . ater, another of Frontenacs war par-ties laid waste the village of Salmon Falls, in New Hampshire; and shortly after. Fort Loyal,in New standing where now is the foot of India Street in the city of Portland, met with similar treat-ment. Such horrible scenes were repeated from year toyear, and often the frightened people of the exposedvillages were obliged to flee to their blockhouses for de-fense. In 1692, one third of the inhabitants of York, inMaine, were massacred; and, in 1694, more than a hun-dred people, mostly women and children, were slaugh-tered at Durham, in New Hampshire ; many of theseunhappy victims were burned alive. Then Groton, , was attacked, and forty people these Indian assaults, that of Haverhill, in 1697, was § 70. OVERTHROW OF NEW FRANCE. 163 perhaps the most famous, on account of the bold exploitof Hannah Dustin, a farmers wife. Mr. Dustin was at work in a field, with his seven chil-dren playing about him, when all at once he heard the. NEW ENGLAND dreadful war whoop. Seizing his gun and leaping uponhis horse, he discovered that the Indians were betweenhim and the house, so that it was impossible to story ofrescue his wife. So he told his children to run of\|r?^^^^on before him, while he fired back upon the In- and kept them at a distance, and in such wise theyarrived safely at the nearest fortified house. Meanwhile,in Mr. Dustins house an Indian had seized the baby byone of its ankles, and taking it outdoors, swung it against 1 Such strongholds were usually built in or near the New England vil-lages, in early times, for protection against Indian attacks. The projectingupper story afforded an advantage in firing down at assailants or in throw-ing down stones upon them. The blockhouse shown above was builtin 1754, near the junction of the Kennebec and Sebasticook rivers, inMaine. The sketch was made by Justin Winsor in 1S52, and is engravedill his
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