A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I
out into the wide world, went first with her disciples to Rhode Island, but not liking to stay there she removed with her family into one of the Dutch plantations culled Hebgate, where within a little while, the Indians murdered her and her whole family, to the number of sixteen persons.^ Chandler in his criminal trials, says, '' the whole family of the Hutchinsons removed beyond New Haven to Eustchester in the territory of the Dxitch^^^ O'Callaghan observes, that " the greatest terror prevailed everywhere," (arising from the Indian war then raging,) Pavonia, Achter Col, the greater part of Manhattan, and most of Long Island were in the hands of the Indians, now consisting of seven different tril es, amounting, it was estimated, to fifteen hundred warriors. While the work of destruction was going on in the above quarters other parties of savages crossed over to the main, and cleared all before them as far as Stamford. Thither the celebrated Mrs. Anne Hutchinson had retired from her persecutors in Massachusetts, but the Indians had discovered her retreat. They appeared at first friendly, as was their wont when making their visits, but on discovering the defenceless condition of the inmates they killed her and her son-in-law, Mr. Collins, with her son Francis, and all the other members of her family, besides a number of otb^er persons in the neighborhood belonging to the families of 3/r. Throgmorton and Mr. Cornhill. Eighteen persons in all fell victims here to these barbarians, who putting the cattle into barns, burnt the whole.''^ To the above account Mr. Drake adds, "a greater slaughter would have been made at this time and place, but for the arrival of a boat while the tragedy was enacting, into which several persons, women and children,