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

ware) Indians. of,

south-western part of Rochester. Jan's house was turned and one of his daughand two men who acted as scouts, were killed. Jan's wife and two daughters, and himself and two sons who were

ters,

in the field, escaped.

Documentary His-

OF HUDSON'S RIVER. old woman

their spears into the the house, and then They rifled had after they scalped the slain

saw the cruel savages thrust

body of her gasping infant. carried her and her son off, above mentioned.

" Soon after

two Ger

they were joined by two Indians with they had taken that day, and killed and scalped another, in one Anthony Westbrook's field, near Minnisink, so

man captives called,

Not long Susquehanna county, if I mistake not. where to his great surprise he found

in

after Cole returned home ; his four children

murdered, and his wife and other son missing. fort, and got

Upon which he went to Minnisink (Napanochj

a few soldiers to assist him in burying his children and the Ger