. The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars. ne under a saved. large wash tub, and then concealed herself behind a barrel of meat.^ The marauders searched thecellar, drank milk from the pans, and even helped them- The site of Rolfes house is marked by a monument at Dustin Square. The door,pierced by balls, was afterward nailed up in the meeting-house porch, as a memorial ofthe event, and was burned in the fire that destroyed that hoime.—AUe7i. 2 One afterward became the wife of Colonel Hatch, of Dorchester, Mass.; the other,Elizabeth, of the Rev. Samu
. The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars. ne under a saved. large wash tub, and then concealed herself behind a barrel of meat.^ The marauders searched thecellar, drank milk from the pans, and even helped them- The site of Rolfes house is marked by a monument at Dustin Square. The door,pierced by balls, was afterward nailed up in the meeting-house porch, as a memorial ofthe event, and was burned in the fire that destroyed that hoime.—AUe7i. 2 One afterward became the wife of Colonel Hatch, of Dorchester, Mass.; the other,Elizabeth, of the Rev. Samuel Checkley, Sr., of Boston. Their daughter became thewife of Samuel Adams, the patriot. 1708] HAVERHILL SACKED 245 selves to meat from the barrel behind which the trem-bling negress was crouching, breathless with terror, with-out suspecting that anyone was concealed there. Thepoor fugitives were no doubt favored by the darkness,as well as the haste these brigands were in to be offto their bloody work again. Besides Hagar and thechildren, Anna Whittaker, who lived with the Kolfes,. PBASLEE GARRISON, HAVERHILL, MASS. also escaped death by hiding behind an apple-chestkept under the stairs.^ What was true of one was true of all. The Frenchcontingent was quite as active in the house-to-houseslaughter now going on as the savages wretches ! that had said their prayers, em-braced each other, and commended their souls to God,just before bathing their hands in innocent blood.^ 1 She also claimed to have saved Rolfes children,tember 27, Charlevoix, II., 326. -Massachusetts Gazette^ Sep- 246 THE BORDER WARS OF NEW ENGLAND [1708 Thomas Hartsliorne and his three sons were killed inthe act of escaping from their dwelling. Mrs. Harts-horne secreted herself and her children in the cellar,closing the trap-door in the floor after them. An in-fant was left lying on a bed in the garret. Finding noone else, the child was quickly tossed out of the windowwithout ceremony,
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