and laid down again; and we all dropt into Sleep: and
when the Cocks began to Crow they came, as I suppose, to the Bed, and
Shot my Husband through the Head. And a young Man lying upon
the Floor was Shot in the same Minute. And the Indians, I suppose,
thinking the Bullet had gone thro' my Husband's Head and my own too,
struck me with a Tomahawk under my right Arm; and afterwards they
struck me two Cuts upon the left Knee. I lying still they supposed I
was dead, and one of them went and killed both my Children; & then
they came and took the Blankets from us & plunder'd the House of all that
was valuable and went off. And in that bad Condition I have lain
amongst my Dead two Days. And by the help of Providence one of my
Horses came to the House; and so I came to Martin Friday's House.
The Commons was stirred by this and other accounts of raids in the
northwest to debate so drastic a measure as an expedition of a thousand
men to punish the Cherokees and their friends, but later thought better of
it. Meanwhile Mary Cloud had been brought to town, and the House,
having resolved to pay her expenses, some months later read and
