[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] seven or eight in breadth, which was "well and thickly settled, was abandoned by the inhabitants, who, for their safety, removed their families to the east side of the river, and became a charge on the charity of their neighbors," while others " removed to distant parts, and some out of the province.1 " Fatigues of body, in continually guarding and ranging the woods, and anxiety of mind which the inhabitants could not 1 Neiv Tork Manuscripts, LXXXII, 107, etc. 222 THE INDIAN TRIBES avoid by their being exposed to a cruel and savage enemy, increased by the perpetual lamentations and cries of the women and children," were not the only evils which the inhabitants suffered. Three men were killed at Cochecton; five men at Philip Swartwout's; Benjamin Sutton and one Rude, two of the Goshen militia, were killed at Minnisink; Morgan Owen was killed and scalped about four miles from Goshen; a woman, taken prisoner at Minnisink, was killed and her body cut in halves and left by the highway; Silas Hulet's house was robbed and he himself narrowly escaped. " From about the drowned lands for fifteen miles down the Wallkill, where fifty families dwelt,