THE TOWN OF PELHAM. 33 



were roasted to death in the flames."" The youngest daughter of Mrs. 

 Hutchinson, quite a small child, was taken- prisoner and remained in 

 captivity for four years ; after her release had been procured by the Dutch 

 Governor at New York, she was restored to her friends ; but she had 

 forgotten her native language, and was unwilling to be taken from the 

 Indians." 6 " She afterwards married a Mr. Cole of Kingston in the 

 Narragansett country, and lived to a considerable age." 



One of the principal Indian proprietors of this territory, who sold to 

 Thomas Pell in 1654, just eleven years after the above mentioned mas- 

 sacre, assumed Mrs. Hutchinson's Christain name ; for he constantly 

 styled himself in the early deeds " Ann-hoock,"' alias Wampage. This 



individual may have taken an active part in the destruction of Anne 

 Hutchinson, for nothing was more common among the Indians than for 

 a warrior or brave to assume the name of his victim — material traces of 

 his existence still linger around the scene of this bloody tragedy, for his 

 grave or mound is still pointed out, and there is also a rock upon the 

 south side of the neck bearing the same name, which is said to have been 

 a favorite fishing place of the above mentioned sachem. Towards the 

 extreme point of the neck, sometimes called Rodman's Point (after 

 Samuel Rodman who married Mary, grand-daughter of Thomas Pell, 

 third proprietor of the manor) quite near the waters' edge is located an 

 ancient burying ground, said to have been used by the Indians ; but a 

 thorough examination, conducted in the presence of Thomas Pell, fifth 

 in descent from John Lord Pell, proved it to be a place of sepulture for 

 the white race only — how far back it is impossible to say. The first 

 mound opened contained the skull and larger bones of a female skeleton 

 in a horizontal position. 



" The heroic Anne Hutchinson, who had so long and so nobly with- 

 stood the fiery trials of New England persecution, was worthy of a better 

 fate than to fall before the fury of an Indian murderer ; yet death, 

 horrible as was the form in which it came to her, did not appease the 

 rancor of her Puritan enemies. They rejoiced at the butchery ; and 

 afterwards spoke of it in terms of pious exultation, as the judgment of an 



a Hist, of Indians of Conn., by De Forest, 205. 



b Drake's Book of the Indians, 69. 



c Hence Anne's-Hoeck and the Manor of Anne Hook's necfc. 



