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,

» Neal'B Hist, of New England, vol. i. 178.

b Chandler's Criminal Trials, vol. i. 27.

c U'Callaghan's Hist. N. N. 287. Wild's Rise, Reigil, and Ruin of the Antinomians contains this pious exultation at the destruction of Mrs. Hutchinson: "The Indians set upon them and slew her and all her children, save one that escaped, (her own husband being dead before,) a dreadful blow ! Some write that the Indians did burn her to death with fire, her house and all the rest that belonged unto

her, but I am not able to affirm by what kind of death they slew her God's

hand ifl more apparently seen herein to pick out this woful woman, to make her and tho»e belonging to her, an unheard of heavy example of their cruelty to others."

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escaped, bat two of the boat's crew were killed in their humane exertions to save these distressed people. The daughter of Mrs- Hutchinson remained a prisoner four ^ears, when she was delivered to the Dutch governor at New York, who restored her to her friends. She had forgotten her native lanci^uago, and was unwilling to be taken from the Indians. "=^ The residence of Anne Hutchinson appears to have been situated on Peiham neck, formerly called An)i^s hoeck, literally, Ann's point or neck, hoeck being a Dutch name for a neck or point, for, up to a very late period, her farm was distinguished as the Manor of Anne hooks neck.