32 HISTORV OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



very midst of the favorite haunts of the savage Siwanoys. " She was," 

 indeed, " far from human help," and trusted, no doubt, as the historian 

 lias well observed, "to the Divine protection" alone; she must, indeed, 

 long have relied upon no other power; for among men, she had met 

 only bitter persecution and constant injustice."'* 



It appears that scarcely had this noble, generous and tenderhearted 

 woman settled down her little colony of sixteen persons, either on Pol- 

 ham Neck or somewhere in close vicinity thereto, 6 than Governor Kieft 

 aroused the wild fury of the native Indians by his inhumanity and 

 treachery. Whereupon they resolved t:> exterminate the Dutch, and all 

 connected with them. "An army of fifteen hundred warriors swept 

 over Long Island, and ravaged Manhattan Island to the gates of the 

 fort at the Battery. Bloomingdale and Corlear's Hook swarmed with 

 brazen warriors, and the flames of blazing bonfires, and the shrieks of 

 dying men and women spread terror over Manhattan Island. The sav- 

 age, for the moment, seemed to have recovered his old domain."^ 



An Indian, it is said, came to Anne Hutchinson's house in the morn- 

 ing, professing friendship, ("as was their wont when making their visits") 

 but on discovering the defenceless condition of the inmates, returned at 

 night killed Mrs. Hutchinson and her son-in-law, Mr. Collins, with her 

 son, Francis, and all the other members of her family save the youngest 

 daughter, besides a number of other persons in the neighborhood belong- 

 ing to the familes of Mr. Throgmorton and Mr. Cornhill. One of Mrs. 

 Hutchinson's daughters, while attempting to escape, was dragged through 

 a ledge by the hair and carried to a stump where her head was chopped 

 off. We are assured that a greater slaughter would have been made at 

 this time and place, but for the arrival of a boat while the tragedy was 

 enacting — into which several persons, women and children, escaped ; but 

 two of the boats' crew were killed, in their humane exertions to save these 

 distressed people. " To close the scene, the horses and cattle were 

 driven into the barns, the barns were set on fire, and the helpless animals 



a "Anne TTntchiuson : 8 Remarkable Woman/'— Read before New York Hist. Soc. Feb. 5, 

 le Lawrence, Esq., Hist. Mag, New Series, Vol. i., N'o. 3, pages 150 158. 

 Morrisiana, X. Y., Henry li. Dawson. 



b In the grant of the "Ten Farms" by Thoma3 Pell, to James Eustis and others. La 1664, 

 there appears to be a direct allusion to the first house erected in the vicinity of Reed s mill, 

 cq the "old planting ground/' viz., "at J. ; tba' is, where f/,<- house stood, at the 



Tneadoicsau' 'stiver." This was just twenty-one years afterthe mas- 



sacre. Close by Reed's mill is a small rivulet, calied "Black Dog Brook," and, sometimes. 

 "Hutcl '■:.'' Perhaps the Black Dog had some kind of connection with the massa- 



cre of Mrs. Hutchinson in 1643. Tradition asserts, however, that Anne Hutchinson's resi- 

 dence wa3 located on the property of George A. Prevost, Esq., of Pelham, near the road lead- 

 ing to the Neck, on the "old Indian Path." Certain it is that the ruins of an old house on the 

 U Hutchinson's river, are still to be seen, a little south-west of the " Split 

 Rock ; " also, some ancient apple trees and shrubs ; while close by is a fine spring of fresh 

 water ; all of which are claimed to have been associated with the history of this remarkable 

 woman. — [Editor. 



c - Anne Hutchinson," by Eugene Lawrence. Dawson's nLst. Mag. 



