1 86 NATURAL HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF GROTON, MASS. 



A remarkable fatality seems to have followed Mrs. Shat- 

 tuck's kindred. Her husband and eldest son were killed by 

 the Indians, as has just been mentioned. Her father, James 

 Blood, was likewise killed, September 13, 1692. So also were 

 her uncle, William Longley, his wife and five children, July 

 27, 1694; and three others of their children were carried away 

 into captivity at the same time. A relative, James Parker, 

 Jr., and his wife were killed in this assault, and their children 

 taken prisoners. Her step-father, Enosh Lawrence, received 

 a wound in an engagement with the Indians, probably in the 

 same attack of July 27, 1694, which almost wholly prevented 

 him from earning a livelihood for himself and family. The 

 name Enosh is a variation from Enos, and not from Enoch, 

 with which it is frequently confounded. This will be seen by 

 consulting the Geneva version of the Bible, long used in 

 preference to King James's version, by the New England men, 

 and out of which Enos Lawrence was undoubtedly named. 

 In this "Enosh" will be found where the authorized version 

 has " Enos," in Genesis v. 6,7, 9-1 1 . The three Tarbell chil- 

 dren, who were carried off to Canada by the Indians, June 20, 

 1707, were cousins of Mrs. Shattuck. John Ames, who was 

 shot by the savages at the gate of his own garrison, July 9, 

 1724, was the father of Jacob, who married her niece, Ruth 

 Shattuck. And lastly, her son-in-law, Isaac Lakin, the hus- 

 band of her daughter Elizabeth, was wounded in Lovewell's 

 Fight at Pequawket, May 8, 1725. These calamities covered 

 a period of only one generation, extending from the year 

 1692 to 1725. 



THE MINISTERS AT GROTON, IMMEDIATELY 

 AFTER MR. DANA'S DISMISSAL. 



It is well known that the Reverend Samuel Dana, the min- 

 ister at Groton for fourteen years before the Revolution, was 

 not in sympathy with the patriots when the war broke out. 

 In fact, the feeling'against him among his parishioners was so 



