Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . jamin Rolfe, which was then garrisoned bythree soldiers. Leaping from the bed, he placed him-self against the door, and called to the soldiers, whowere in an opposite room, for assistance. This manlygarrison, after closing the intervening door, answeredby running through the rooms wringing their Indians then fired two balls through the door,one of which wounded Rolfe in the elbow.
Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . jamin Rolfe, which was then garrisoned bythree soldiers. Leaping from the bed, he placed him-self against the door, and called to the soldiers, whowere in an opposite room, for assistance. This manlygarrison, after closing the intervening door, answeredby running through the rooms wringing their Indians then fired two balls through the door,one of which wounded Rolfe in the elbow. Theythen pressed against it with united strength; and,finding his efforts useless, he rushed precipitatelythrough the house and out at the back door. He waspursued, overtaken, and tomahawked. The housewas then plundered. Mrs. Rolfe was found and mur-dered ; while the youngest child, torn from her dyinggrasp, was dashed against a stone. A female slave,named Hagar, leaped from her bed, carried two of thechildren, one six, the other eight years old, to thecellar, and covered them with tubs. She then hidherself behind a barrel. The Indians entered thecellar, plundered it of every thing valuable, passed. Attack on Haverhill. ATTACK ON HAVERHILL. 263 and repassed the tubs, took meat from the barrel, anddrank milk from the pans; yet the children andtheir faithful protectress escaped unnoticed. A girlnamed Anna Whittaker concealed herself in an apple-chest under the stairway, and escaped three soldiers, destitute of either the sagacity orcourage of slaves and children, threw themselves intears before the Indians, and were tomahawked. A second party attacked the family of ThomasHartshorne. The father, with two sons, attemptedto escape, but were immediately shot dead. A thirdson was tomahawked at the door. The mother, withall her younger children, was now alone. With asto-nishing presence of mind, she left her infant in a bedin the garret, lest its cries might defeat her pla
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