History And Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association volume 6
History And Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association volume 6
Deerfield Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
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One hundred and four (mostly women and children) slaughtered, and twenty-seven captives. But the lit- tle settlement was not lacking in heroes. At the lower end of the village, Thomas Bickford, roused by the firing, hurried his *Doc. Rel. , Vol. II, p. 135. The Adventures of Baptiste. 355 wife and children to his boat in the stream behind his house sent them down the river and went back alone to defend his hard-earned home. Mad with victory the savage crew ap- proached. Undaunted, he fired at t...hem, now from one loophole, then from another, shouting commands as if to a garrison, and fearlessly showing himself in a different hat, cap or coat success- ively in different parts of his house, in this way saving his fam- ily and his home. Some of the attacking party, not yet satis- fied, set out on another " excursion. " " They mean, " says Yillieu in his relation, " to divide into bands of four or five, and knock people in the head by surprise, which cannot fail to produce a good effect. " In the massacre of forty people at Groton they had their sat- isfaction.
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