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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Narrative and legendary poems (search)
village, which at that time contained only thirty houses. Sixteen of the villagers were massacred, and a still larger number made prisoners. About thirty of the enemy also fell, and among them Hertel de Rouville. The minister of the place, Benjamin Rolfe, was killed by a shot through his own door. In a paper entitled The Border War of 1708, published in my collection of Recreations and Miscellanies, I have given a prose narrative of the surprise of Haverhill. How sweetly on the wood-girt l the thick and sullen smoke From smouldering ruins slowly broke; And on the greensward many a stain, And, here and there, the mangled slain, Told how that midnight bolt had sped Pentucket, on thy fated head! Even now the villager can tell Where Rolfe beside his hearthstone fell, Still show the door of wasting oak, Through which the fatal death-shot broke, And point the curious stranger where De Rouville's corse lay grim and bare; Whose hideous head, in death still feared, Bore not a trace of
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 3 (search)
bury, and married there Mary Scullard (daughter of Samuel), 4 Dec. 1656. Rolfe died suddenly at the house of his brother Benjamin Rolfe, at Newbury, 1 Oct. 1681, where he made a nuncupative will, and said he would, if he could write the next day, write his will, but in the meanwhile deceased before he could finish the same. 1681. Granted to Widow Rolfe to make a dam above the old mill-pond to keep water in, for to accommodate the mill with water. —Proprietors' Records. The old mill-pond eing according to the discretion of his overseers). The overseers he appointed and ordered were Richard Doell [Dole], Benjamin Rolfe, George Little, Francis Moore, John Gardner. Dec. 16, 1681, Sarah Halle, aged 45, and Apphia Rolfe, aged 40 [wife of Benjamin and sister-in-law of John Rolfe], testified to being at Benjamin Rolfe's hous in nubery that night that John Rolfe deceased, and heard him declare that he had appointed and did desire his two brothers Ri. Dowell and Benj. Rolf, and Geo. Lit
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
f battle; Rou Mirick. ville addressed the soldiers, who, after their orisons, marched against the fort, raised the shrill yell, and dispersed themselves through the village to their work of blood. The rifle rang; the cry of the dying rose. Benjamin Rolfe, the minister, was beaten to death; one Indian sunk a hatchet deep into the brain of his wife, while another caught his infant child from its dying mother, and dashed its head against a stone. Thomas Hartshorne and his two sons, attempting at a thirteenth part of their number, hung on their rear,— himself a victim, yet rescuing several from captivity. The day was advanced when the battle ended. The rude epitaph on the moss-grown stone tells where the interment was made in haste: Rolfe, his wife, and child, fill one grave: in the burial-ground of the village, an ancient mound marks the resting-place of the little multitude of victims. Such were the sorrows of that generation. At daybreak, the villagers seemed secure: a litt
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., R. (search)
. His assigns, 107. Character of, 108. A prisoner, 136. Randolph, Edward, II. 111. Rasles, Sebastian, III. 333, 337. Raymbault, Father, III. 129, 131,132. Reformation in England, I. 274. Regicides, II 32. Revolution of 1688, II. 445. Effect on New England, 447. On New York, 450. On New Jersey, 451. Its political theory, III. 9. Its character, 12. Loved privilege, 82. Rhode Island, island of, I. 392. Rhode Island, colony of, first settled, I. 379. Its charter, 425. Fostered by Charles II., II. 61. New charter, 62. Freedom of conscience in, 65. Loses its liberty, 431. Its population, II. 69. Ribault discovers River St. John, I. 61. Leaves a colony in Carolina, 62. Revisits it, 66. Rice introduced into Carolina, II. 20. Roberval's voyages, I. 22. Robinson, John, I. 306. His death, 321. Rolfe, Thomas, I. 146. Rowlandson, Mary, III. 106. Russia makes discoveries, III. 453. Rut's voyage, I. 76. Ryswick, peace of, III. 192.