FOUNDERS OF FORT NO. 4, CHARLESTOWN, NH
From:	Farns10th@aol.com - Janice Farnsworth

Surname: HOWE
Source: History of Charlestown, NH - Fort No. 4 by Rev. Henry H. Saunderson.

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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