him naked, and split open his bowels. Another, seeing many of
the Indians about his barn, ventured and went out, but was
quickly shot down. There were three others belonging to the
same garrison who were killed; the Indians getting up upon the
roof of the barn, had advantage to shoot down upon them over
their fortification. Thus these murderous wretches went on,
burning, and destroying before them.

At length they came and beset our own house, and quickly it was
the dolefulest day that ever mine eyes saw. The house stood
upon the edge of a hill; some of the Indians got behind the
hill, others into the barn, and others behind anything that
could shelter them; from all which places they shot against the
house, so that the bullets seemed to fly like hail; and quickly
they wounded one man among us, then another, and then a third.
About two hours (according to my observation, in that amazing
time) they had been about the house before they prevailed to
fire it (which they did with flax and hemp, which they brought
out of the barn, and there being no defense about the house,
only two flankers at two opposite corners and one of them not
finished); they fired it once and one ventured out and quenched
it, but they quickly fired it again, and that took. Now is the
dreadful hour come, that I have often heard of (in time of war,
as it was the case of others), but now mine eyes see it. Some
in our house were fighting for their lives, others wallowing in
their blood, the house on fire over our heads, and the bloody
heathen ready to knock us on the head, if we stirred out. Now
might we hear mothers and children crying out for themselves,
and one another, "Lord, what shall we do?" Then I took my
children (and one of my sisters', hers) to go forth and leave