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

them, and was pretty certain he wounded one of

The old woman,

during this,

with her other daughter

and her son, made off and escaped.

" About this time

Waasing

(beginning of June), a sergeant went from

to Minnisink with a party of men, but returned not at

the time they were expected.

Upon which a larger party went out in search of them, and, at their arrival at Minnisink, found seven of them killed and scalped, three wounded, and a woman and four children carried off.

Wawarsing probably.

Near about

the

same time, in

THE INDUN TRIBES

the frontiers of the Jerseys, a house was beset by a party of In

where were seventeen persons, who were killed, as I A man and a boy traveling on the road with their muskets were fired on by some Indians in ambush. The man was killed ; but the boy escaped, having first killed one of the Indians. Not far from this time whether before or dians,