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An English boy, captured at Worcester, was also of the
the women.html">women that, when they reached the village, they would be stripped,
Neff and the boy agreed to join in it. They were in the depths of the
distrust of them, were all asleep about their camp fire, when, late in
silently by the bare heads of the unconscious savages. Then they all
were killed before they were well awake. One old squaw sprang up
whom they had purposely left unharmed. Hannah Dustan and her
scalped them all, and the three made their way back to the
is told by Mather, who had it from the women themselves, and by Niles,
John Pike fully confirms it. The facts were notorious at the time.
ten scalps; and the governor of Maryland, hearing of what they had
[1] "Les témoignages qu'on a rendu à Sa Majesté de l'affection et du
son service.html">service, et particulièrement dans l'engagement où il a mis les
prier de luy faire une plus forte part sur les 1,500 livres de
l'Acadie." _Le Ministre à l'Évesque de Québec_, 16 _Avril_, 1695.
"Je suis bien aise de me servir de cette occasion pour vous dire que
application pour vostre mission, et du progrès qu'elle fait pour
soins pour les maintenir dans le service de Sa Majesté et pour les
_Avril_, 1697. The other letter to Thury, written two years before, is
of the priests, and who, as Charlevoix says, died "un vrai Chrétien,"
exclaimed with fervor: "Ah! why was not I there? I would have revenged
after his fashion on such occasions, suppresses the revenge and. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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