HOWE FAMILY of Sullivan County, NH
Transcribed and contributed to Genealogy Trails by Janice Farnsworth - Farns10th@aol.com
Source: History of Charlestown, NH - Fort 4 by Rev. Henry H. Saunderson pub 1876,
Claremont, NH

p.71
The Indians were particularly active during the summer of 1755 in the CT Valley. The principal mischief they did at Charlestown (Fort 4) was to kill a large number of the cattle of the settlers. From these the flesh was cut and every part of them carried away which was valuable for food. But other towns in the valley suffered from their incursions much more severely. This resulted from the extensive means of defense, which had been instituted by Massachusetts, which rendered, for the most part, successful attacks on her frontiers, impracticable. They therefore, put forth their most strenuous efforts against the settlements on the Connecticut, where as they were but feebly garrisoned, they had better prospects of succeeding. Their most strenuous incursion was at Hinsdale, (now Vernon, Vermont) on the 27th of June where they took three families, consisting of fourteen persons in all, among whom was the celbrated JEMIMA HOWE and her children, whose pathetic story has often been bold. Walpole and other places were attacked during this summer of l755 but the account of these attacks though most interesting does not belong to this history (of Fort 4).

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