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r of the young men of Essex, all culled out of the towns of that county, were conveying the harvests of Deerfield to the lower towns, Sept. 18. they were suddenly surrounded by a horde of Indians; and, as each party fought from behind trees, the victory was with the far more numerous savages. Hardly a white man escaped; the little stream that winds through the tranquil scene, by its name of blood, commemorates the massacre of that day. See the names in note to E. Everett's Address at Bloody Brook, 37 Springfield was burned, and Hadley once more assaulted. The re- Oct. moter villages were deserted; the pleasant residences, that had been won by hard toil in the desert, the stations of civilization in the wilderness, were laid waste. But the English were not the only sufferers. In winter, it was the custom of the natives to dwell together in their wigwams; in spring, they would be dispersed through the woods. In winter, the warriors who had spread misery through the west, were