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BG.756.004
29 Mar 1756:12,13 (52)
Boston, March 25, 1756. I was pleased to see re-printed in
your Gazette of Oct. 13. last, the ancient and excellent
letter which the eminently pious Mr. Frary of Boston wrote
to his friends in December 1675, upon the marching out to
the Narraganset War. . . [15 lines:] and when the seasonable
time of the year is coming on for our further expeditions
against our Popish and barbarous invaders--I wou'd hint at
some of the horrid cruelties which the frenchified Indians
have perpetrated on some of our people, unhappily fallen
into their hands. . .
2. Upon every Indian expedition, it has been the custom for
those cruel savages to single out one of their captives--to
strip him perfectly naked, tie him hand and foot, chain him
to a strong post drove in to the ground; kindle a fire,
roast his back-sides, dance and sing round him, with long
sharp knives in their hands, bid him sing with them; one or
another giving him dreadful stabs & gashes in every part of
his body, and others snatching up burning brands and rubbing
them into the wounds, rejoicing in all his bitter cries--and
so torture him to death. . .
4. Yea in the last war--two deserters of the French
regulars, from Crown-Point, who were bro't from France in
1746, and carried from Quebeck to Mount Royal in their way
to Crown Point Fort, gave this shocking account of what they
saw at Mont Royal. The Indians bringing in some captives
from the frontiers of the Province of New York; and
determining to sacrifice a Dutch Man to their infernal rage;
they invited the governor & gentry of Mont Royal to see
their dance: and while the Dutchman was perfectly naked,
tied hand & foot, chain'd to the post, and the Indians
dancing, singing, roasting, stabbing, gashing and tormenting
him as above; an Indian woman tho't it not enough, but took
a wire, heat it red hot, and run it up thro' his penis into
his body to his unutterable anguish, not being able in the
least to help himself, but by roaring out to the utmost till
his soul and body were rent asunder. This was to extreamly
horrid, that the French Regulars wou'd have push'd her away;
but the French commander angrily forbid and prevented them,
telling them they had nothing to do to hinder the Indians
from treating their captives as they pleased. . . [6 lines +
1 para. more]
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