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Title: The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Reid, W. Max (William Max), 1839-1911
Subjects: Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.) -- History
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ng refreshments for his visitors, was shot through the head. Twoof his attendants were slain with him. His wife was already up anddressed in such finery as the princesses of the rude Highland glenswere accustomed to wear. The assassin pulled off her clothes andtrinkets and tore her rings from her fingers with his teeth. She diedon the following day. Campbell and his men committed the error of dispatching theirhosts with firearms instead of using cold steel. The peal and flashof gun after gun from three different parts of the valley gave noticeat once that murder was doing. The sons of the old chief escaped,and from fifty cottages the half-naked men, women, and childrenfled under cover of the darkness to caverns in the glen, and whenHamilton arrived in broad daylight the work of destruction, as hesaid, had not been half performed. Thirty-two corpses lay wallow-ing m blood on the snow before the doors; one or two women andthe tiny hand of an infant, lopped off, were seen among the heaps
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Z O Z X o O aI -HF NEW YORK j (r^T.lCUBRAKY/ ^STO«. LENOX AND TILOiN FlUN rial IO f*6. Accounts of the Notorious Butler Eamily 239 of slain. One aged MacDonald, over seventy, was found alive,probably too infirm to fly. Hamilton murdered the old man in coldblood. The hamlets were burned and the troops departed drivingaway with them over a thousand head of cattle. How many oldmen and delicate women and children perished in the snow of themountains on that fearful night can never be known; probably asmany as were slain by the assassins. When the troops had retired, the MacDonalds crept out of thecaverns of Glencoe, ventured back to the spots where their rudedwellings had been, and performed some rude rites of sepulture fortheir murdered kinsmen. Was it fate or retribution that brought about four hundredof the kinsmen of these murderers to the valley of the Mo-hawk a half a century later ? The settlement at Saratoga wascomposed of clansmen of the Campbells, and in 1745 met withprecisely

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