consisting of seventy persons, most of whom were women and children, were safely conducted on to Rhode Island.   Six persons of that vicinity, who were killed at that time, while they were with their teams conveying their corn into the garrison, were the first that fell in that war.

   April 9, 1676, the enemy burnt a house and barn in the east part of the town.   The following extract from a letter of the Rev. Mr. Keith to Thomas Hinckley thus alludes to it:—

   "April 17, 1676.   God hath now begun to pour out upon us the cup of trembling; yet the Lord doth remember us still with mercy, yea very great mercy.   The 9th of this instant, being the Lord's Day, as we were assembling in the forenoon, we were alarmed by the shooting of some guns from some of our garrisons upon discovery of a house being on fire, which was Robert Latham's; his dwelling house and barn are wholly consumed.   The house was deserted but a few days before.   He had considerable loss in lumber.   The corn and chief of his goods were saved.   There were divers other out-houses rifled at the same time, but no more burnt.   There was a horse or two, killed; three or four carried away; and some few swine killed.   We sent out a party of men on the Lord's Day night upon discovery, who found their trackings.   Our men judged their might be about ten of them.   They followed them by their tracks several miles, but having no provision, they were forced to leave the pursuit.   We are in expectation every day of an assault here.   The Lord prepare us for our trial."

   May 8th, about three hundred Indians with Tispaquin for their leader, made another assault on the east end of the village on the south side of the river, and set fire to many of the houses; but the inhabitants issuing from their garrison houses, fell upon them so resolutely, that the enemy were soon repelled; and a heavy shower of rain falling at the same time, the fires were soon extinguished.   The attack was then renewed on the north side of the river, but it was soon defeated, and the next morning the enemy entirely disappeared, after having burnt two houses and one barn.   On these several occasions thirteen houses and four barns only were burnt, and but five of these were in the village; the rest were on the borders of the settlement and deserted at the time.   Excepting the garrison houses,