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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Report from Walkill, Ulster County, on Indian raids: Patrick Carr shot dead in bed; his wife and five children, plus another woman and her five children, captured. Frontier settlers fleeing homes amid ongoing Indian war, lack of defense, and rumors of more captures near Minisink.
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Abstract from a Paper, dated at Walkill, in Ulster County, October 5, 1757:
We are in a dreadful Situation here! every Moment expecting to be murdered by the Indians.-- Last Sunday Patrick Carr, who lived about 18 Miles from Hudson's River, was shot lying in his Bed, and his Wife and five innocent Babes, with another Woman, and her five Children, who resided in the same House, were carried into Captivity by the Indians---- We, more than any other Part of the Province, have felt the direful Effects of an Indian War: Nothing has yet been done to succour us; the Frontier Settlers are all coming in, having abandoned their little Habitations, to preserve their Lives. The late military Duty our young Men were obliged to perform, has caused many of them to go a privateering (having no Property of their own to defend) so that we are incapacitated from defending ourselves as we used to do.-- We are in daily Expectation of hearing more Damage done, as we make no Doubt many scouting Parties of Indians are now out on the scalping Account.--A few Men properly posted in Block Houses, on the Frontiers, would be a great Protection to us this Winter.-- We have a Report of several other Persons being carried off by the Indians near Minisink, but cannot obtain the Particulars.
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Walkill, Ulster County
Event Date
Last Sunday (Before October 5, 1757)
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patrick carr shot in bed; his wife and five children, another woman and her five children carried into captivity; frontier settlers abandoning homes; rumors of other captures near minisink.
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Indians attacked house 18 miles from Hudson's River, shooting Patrick Carr in bed and capturing 11 women and children; ongoing Indian war causing dread, lack of succor, young men privateering instead of defending, expectation of more scalping parties; suggestion for block houses on frontiers.