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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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An officer at Fort-Renelaer reports frequent alarms and common murders in the area. On July 16, an aged couple was killed and scalped near Fort-Paris while pulling flax. Mrs. Skinner recounts the gruesome murder of Mr. Peters at Ellis's mill, witnessed by his wife.
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Extract of a letter from an officer at Fort-Renelaer, dated July 18.
It is a rare day that affords us no alarms. Murder has become so common, that it is hardly taken any account of. Two days ago a very aged man and his wife were killed and scalped back of Fort-Paris, as they were pulling flax. Yesterday Mrs. Skinner, who was taken prisoner at Ellis's mill when it was destroyed, related to me the treatment of old Mr. Peters, who was murdered at that place: after they had cut him in several parts of his head and body, he was ripped open, and his heart torn out and laid along side of him: of this melancholy spectacle old Mrs. Peters, his wife, as well as Mrs. Skinner, was a spectator.
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Fort Renelaer, Fort Paris, Ellis's Mill
Event Date
July 18 (Letter); Two Days Prior For Recent Murders
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aged man and wife killed and scalped; mr. peters murdered, cut, ripped open, heart removed
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Letter describes frequent alarms and murders. Recent killing of aged couple near Fort-Paris while pulling flax. Mrs. Skinner recounts destruction of Ellis's mill, her capture, and gruesome murder of Mr. Peters witnessed by his wife and herself.