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

The soldiers joined

man.

with some of the neighbors that

evening to cross Delaware river at day-light, and waylay the road to Wyoming ; and as four of them were going to one

Chambers's, about two o'clock

at night,

they heard the Indians

coming down the hill, to cross the Delaware, as was supposed, when one of the four fired on them. They immediately fled,

The woman they led with a giving a yell after their manner. her and the about neck, string boy by the hand ; who, finding themselves loose, made their escape along the road, and happily

met at James McCarty's house, the boy first, and afterward the

woman.

" The

daughter of one widow Walling, living near Fort between Goshen and Minnisink, going out to pick up Gardiner,

some chips

for

the

fire,

at -by three Indians. Her Her brother, looking out at a gar

was shot

shrieks alarmed the people. ret window, and sister, fired at

them.

seeing a

fellow

dispatching and scalping his