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In the book "Massanutten, settled by the Pennsylvania Pilgrim, 1726" by Harry M. Strickler, 1924, is the following information:
"In August, 1764, the home (Roads) on South River was attacked by a marauding party of eight Indians accompanied by a white man, intent on securing money. The father was killed standing in the door, the mother and a son met the same fate in the yard. A second son attempted to escape by going into the river, but was overtaken and killed. Another son at work in the cornfield, climbed a pear tree to ascertain the cause of the trouble at home, was immediately observed and shot. A girl about twelve years old ran to the barn with her baby sister in her arms. She was followed by an Indian intent on murder, but a bolted door hindered his purpose. With shouts and imprecations he went to the house for fire which gave her time to escape from the barn to a hemp-patch near by. After scalping thier victims and burning all the buildings, they retraced their way across the Massanutten Mountains, taking with them three of the children. Having reached the upper Fort Valley, the youngest boy, aged about seven, was tired from the journey and was killed, as was also the girl of ten, whose bitter weeping over the fate of her family andered the Indians."
"This information was given by Michael, the boy of fifteen, who was carried away and remained a captive for over three years. On his return he made his home with his brother Joseph who lived eight miles south of Luray...It would seem that the French were responsible for this heinous crime (the scalps were sold to the French). Here was a Pennsylvania Pilgrip who had followed the policy of William Penn, of goodwill toward the Indians, and yet he was brutally murdered by the Indians largely thru this nefarious and wicked policy of the French."
I did not understand if the young girl and the baby were able to escape; there was no mention of them other than what I have written above. Apparently Joseph was not at the home; probably already living elsewhere.
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