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The Pontiac Manuscript
their goods plundered and their house set on fire—a terrible sight it was, as in view of the savages the dead bodies were half consumed by fire. The Indians killed a part of the animals and carried off the rest, some of which escaped into the woods and were picked up by the inhabitants along the ¦ coast.
While the first made this slaughter, another band was at Hog [Island], where a man named Fisher, who had been a sergeant in the English troops, was established. This man with his family, consisting of five or six persons, had, for half the profit, a farm which the officers had appropriated to themselves. These good people, when they least expected it, who thought only of their work, became the pitiable victims of the furor of the savages, who threw themselves first upon the man, took his scalp and wanted to carry off his wife as their prisoner, because she was pretty.
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