Some time in the first part of October, in Ulster county, the Indians fired into the furthermost house in Rochester, and women, but were repulsed by two men. 4 Just before the other Indians came up, one of the company that was fore

killed two

most seized a young woman as she was washing at the door upon which she screamed out another woman rescued her, beat ofF the Indian and shut the door. ;

;

"On the

1 6th

of

May, 1758, about two clock in the after

noon, about thirteen Indians rushed into the house of one Nicho las Cole, on the frontiers of the Jerseys, if I mistake not. Cole not being at home, they immediately pinioned his wife, and tomahawked their son-in-law, about eighteen years old, and

dragged her out of doors, where her eldest daughter, about thirteen years old, lay murdered, and a boy aged eight, and her At last, the poor, helpless youngest daughter, aged about four.

Colonial History, vn, 87.

History of the French and Indian War,

Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., v. 3 " I am inclined to think the Minnisink Indians who formerly lived on those lands, the only are at least the chief perpetrators of those hostilities and ravages which the frontiers of your province and if not

that of New York, have and are daily suffering." Johnson to Gov. of New Jer-

*

The official account states that this raid

was by a party of Senecas and river (Dela-

The attack here spoken was on the house of Peter Jan, in the