The day succeeding this bloody engagement a lieutenant, with 12 men, was sent by the commander to the place of action to bury the dead. When they were a few rods therefrom they were suddenly attacked by about 100 of the enemy who had laid ambush. The lieutenant ordered his men to reserve their fire until they could discharge with the best effect upon the enemy, by whom they were soon surrounded and furiously attacked on all sides, The savages yelling horribly, brandishing their long knives in the air, yet crimsoned with the blood of their countrymen. The brave little band, however, remained firm and undaunted, and as the savages approached them, each taking proper aim discharged with so good effect upon them, that the Indians, amazed at the instantaneous destruction of so many of their comrades, fled in every direction. The English sustained no loss.

On the 5th the enemy successfully attacked the inhabitants of the villages of Casco; 30 of whom they killed and made prisoners the family of a Mr. Bracket, who on the 7th made their escape in the following manner: The Indians, on their return to their wigwams, learning that a detached party of their brethren had attacked with success and plundered the village of Arowsick, to enjoy a share of the spoil hastened to join them, leaving the prisoners in the care of two old men and three squaws. Mr. Bracket, whose family consisted of himself, wife; three small children and a negro lad, viewed this a favourable opportunity to escape; to effect which he requested the lad to attempt an escape by flight, who being uncomonly active he easily effected. The plan of Mr. Bracket had now its desired effect; as the old men pursuing the negro; left him and his family guarded only by three squaws, whom (being intoxicated) he soon despatched, and returned the day following with his family to Casco, where the negro lad had arrived some hours before.

On the 15th the Indians attacked the dwelling house of a Captain Bonithon and Major Phillips situated on the east side of Casco river. Having seasonable notice of the hostile views of the enemy the family of the former, as a place of great"safety, had resorted to the house of the latter a few moments previous to the attack. The savages first communicated fire to the house of Captain Boni thon; next proceeded furiously to attack the dwelling of Major Phillips, in which there were about twenty persons, by whom it was most gallantly defended. The enemy had their leader and a number of their. party killed by the fire of the English. Despairing of taking the house by assault, they adopted a new plan of commnicating fire thereto. They procured a carriage on which they erected a stage, in front of which was a barricade rendered bullet proof, to which long poles were attached nearly 20 feet in length, and to the ends were affixed every kind of combustible, such as birch rinds, straw, pitch pine, &c. The Indians were sheltered by the barricade from the fire of the English, while they approached the walls of the house with their carriage. The English were now on the eve of despairing, when fortunately one of the wheels of the carriage, being brought in contact with a rock, was turned completly round, which exposed the whole body of Indians to their fire! This unexpected opportunity was improved with the greatest advantage by the Engl sh, who with a few rounds soon dispersed the enemy with no considerable loss.

The day following the Indians set fire to the house of a Mr. Wakely, whom with his whole family they murdered. A company of the English, apprized of their dangerous situation, marched to their relief, but arrived too late to afford them assistance. They found the house reduced to ashes; among which they found the mangled bodies of the unfortunate family half consumed by fire.

The savages, emboldened by their late success, on the 20th attacked a small settlement on the Piscataqua river, and succeeded in murdering a part, and carrying away the remainder of the inhabitants into captivity. As an instance of their wanton barbarity, it should be here mentioned, that after tomahawking and scalping one of the unfortunate women of the above place. they bound to the dead body her little infant; in which situation it was the succeeding day discovered by the English, attempting to draw nourishment from its mother's breast.

The Governor and Council of the United Colonies, conceiving it their duty if possible to put a final stop to the ravages of the enemay in the east, and to prevent the further effusion of innocent blood, despatched Major Wallis and Major Bradford, with six companies under their command, to destroy, "root and branch," the common enemy. On the 1st December they arrived in the neighbourhood of Kennebeck, near where they were informed the main body of the enemy were encamped. On the morning of the third, about the break of day, they fell in with and attacked them. The enemy, who were about 800 strong, appeared disposed to maintain their ground. They fought with all the fury of savages, and even assailed the English from the tops of lofty trees which they assended for the pupose. They were possessed of but few fire-arms, but hurled their tomahawks with inconceivable exactness, and checked the progress of the cavalry with long spears. Victory for a long time remained doubtful. The ground being covered with snow greatly retarded the progress of the troops, who probbaly would have met with defeat had not a fresh company of infantry arrived in time to change the fortune of the day. These, having remained inactive as a body of reserve, the commander found himself under the necessity of calling to his aid. The enemy, disheartened at the unexpected arrival of the English, fled with precipitancy to the woods; but very few of them, however. escaped; more than 200

of whom remained dead on the field of action, and double that number were mortally wounded! The loss of the English was 55 killed and 97 wounded! This engagement, which proved a decisive one, was of the greatest importance to the English. The great and arduous work was now completed. The few remaining Indians that inhabited the eastern country now expressed a desire to bury the bloody hatchet, and to make peace with the English. Their request was cheerfully complied with, and they continued ever after the faithful friends of the English.

CHAPTER IV.

INVASION OF NEW-YORK AND NEW-ENgLand, and THE DE STRUCTSON OF SCHENECTADY

DIANS.

BY THE FRENCH AND IN

In the year 1690 the Mohawks, having made several successful expeditions against the Canadians, the Count Frontenac, to raise the depressed spirits of the latter despatched several parties of French and Indians to attack the frontier settlements of NewYork and New-England. A detachment of nearly 500 French and Indians under the command of Monsieurs P. Aillebout, De Waulet and Le Wayne, were despatched from Montreal for this purpose. They were furnished with every thing necessary for winter's campaign. After a march of twenty-two days they, on the 8th Febuary, reached Schenectady. They had on their march been so reduced as to har bor thoughts of surrendering themselves prisoners of war to the English; but their spies (who had been for several days in the village, entirely unsuspected) representing in so strong terms the defenceless state of the inhabitants, as determined them to make an

immediate attack. They found the gates open and unguarded. They entered them about eleven o'clock at night, and the better to effect their hellish purpose, divided their main body into several distinct parties of six or seven men each! The inhabitants were in a profound sleep, and unalarmed until the enemy had broken open their doors and with uplifted tomahawks were surrounding their beds! Before they had time to rise, the savages began the perpetration of the most inhuman barbarities! No language can express the cruelties which were committed! In less than one hour two hundred of the unfortunate inhabitants were slain and the whole village enwrapt in flames! A detail of the cruelties committed by the barbarians cannot be read without horror. They ravished, rifled, murdered and mutilated the inhabitants, without distinction of age or sex, without any other provocation or excitement than brutal lust and wantonness of barbarity! Pregnant women were ripped open and their infants cast into the flames or dashed against the posts of the doors!! Such monsters of barbarity ought certainly to be excluded from all the privileges of human nature, and hunted down as wild beasts, without pity or cessation. A very few of the inhabitants escaped, who in their shirts (in a severe and stormy night) fled to Albany. Twenty-five of the fugitives in their flight perished with cold. The enemy, after destroying the inhabitants, killed all the horses and cattle which they could find, with the exception of about thirty of the former, which they loaded with their plunder and drove off.

When the news of the horrid massacre reached Albany, an universal fear and consternation seized the inhabitants. The country became panic struck; and many entertained thoughts of destroying the town and abandoning that part of the country to the

enemy.

A second party of the enemy which Count Frontenac had detached from the main body at the