Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

NEW-YORK, October 7.

Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Montgomery county, dated August 18, 1786, to a relation in Williamsburg, received the 17th ult.

"You have, I make no doubt, before this time, heard of the murders, committed by the Indians, on the frontiers of this country. A party, supposed to be 35 in number, on the 14th of last month, early in the morning, fell upon the family of a Captain James Moore, who lived in Abb's Valley, near Bluestone Creek, the whole of which, except two hired men, who were at work in a field, were either killed or taken, and all his houses burnt; those two making their escape, alarmed the rest of the inhabitants, who ran together for their defence, and thereby preserved themselves from any further damage, which, in all probability, they otherwise would have sustained."

"The barbarities of these savages, exercised on this occasion, were most shocking: after having killed Moore, they scalped him, beat his skull level with his eyes, with a war club, stabbed him in several places with a spear, cut off his nose, lips and privy parts: and burnt a man up in the house, whether he was dead or not, before fire was set to it, is uncertain. They also burnt the head of an infant off; a war club was left sticking in the head of another, and several bows and arrows were left. The sign they made, is said, by those who pretend to be judges, to be daring and insulting."