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extream Seafon; forcing them to carry great loads, and 

 when any of them by their hard ufage could not bare with 

 it, were knock' d on the head, and fo kill'd in cool Bloud. 

 All which with fome other horrible Inftances done by 

 thofe Barbarous Salvages, which Maj. Church himfelf was 

 an eye witnefs to in his former Travels in the Eaftward 

 parts, did much aftonifh him. To fee a Woman that thofe 

 Barbarous Salvages had taken and kill'd, expofed in a 

 moft bruitifh manner (as can be exprefs'd) with a Young 

 Child feiz'd faft with ftrings to her breaft; which Infant 

 had no apparent wound, which doubtlefs was left alive to 

 fuck its dead Mothers Breaft, and fo miferably to perifh & 

 dye. Alfo to fee other poor Children hanging upon 

 Fences dead, of either Sex, in their own poor Rags, not 

 worth their ftripping them of, in fcorn and derifion. 

 Another Inftance was, of a ftraggling Souldier, who was 

 found at Cafco, expos'd in a fhameful and barbarous man- 

 ner; his body being ftaked up, his head cut off, and a hogs 

 head fet in the room, his body rip'd up, and his heart and 

 inwards taken out, and private Members cut off, and hung 

 with belts of their own, the inwards at one fide of his 

 body, and his private at the other, in fcorn & derifion of 

 the Englijli Souldiers, &c. Thefe and fuch like Bar- 

 barities caufed Major Church to exprefs himfelf to this 



ampton, and wife of Rev. John Wil- 

 liams of Deerfield (who was fon of Dea. 

 Samuel, of Roxbury, who was eldeft 

 fon of Robert) ; was married 21 July, 

 1687 ; taken captive, 29 Feb., 170I ; was 



murdered on the road to Canada on the 

 fecond day's march by her Indian cap- 

 tor. [Savage's Gen. Di&. iv : 563; 

 Holland's Hift. Weft. Mafs. i: 153; 

 Hoyt's Antiq. Refearckes, 190.] 



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