Governor and placed in the executive chair Thus the inhabitants of the were greatly encouraged to renew with redoubled fury their unlawful attacks upon our defenceless settlements Men women and children were driven in every direction before their merciless persecutors robbed of their possessions, their property, their provisions and their all cast forth upon the bleak snowy prairies houseless and unprotected, many sunk down and expired under their accumulated sufferings while others after enduring hunger and the severities of the Season suffering all but death arrived in to which place they were driven from all the surrounding Counties only to witness a still more heartrending scene. In vain had we appealed to the Constituted authorities of for protection and redress of our former grievances. In vain we now stretched out our hands and appealed as the Citizens of this great , to the sympathies, to the Justice and magnanimity of those in power. In vain we implored again and again at the feet of our former persecutor, aid and protection against the ravages and murders now inflicted upon our defenceless and unoffending Citizens. The cry of American Citizens already twice driven and deprived of Liberty could not penetrate their adamantine hearts. The instead of sending us aid issued a—— proclamation for our extermination and banishment ordered out the forces of the , placed them under the command of who to execute these exterminating orders marched several thousand troops into our Settlements in where unrestrained by fear of law or justice and urged on by the highest authority of the they laid waste our fields of corn shot down our Cattle and Hogs for sport burned our dwellings inhumanely butchered some 18 or 20 defenceless Citizens dragged from their hiding places little children and placing the Muzzle of their guns to their heads shot them with the most horrid oaths and imprecations. An aged hero and patriot of the Revolution who served under General [George] Washington while in the act of pleading for quarters was cruelly murdered and hewed in pieces with an old corn cutter and in addition to all these savage acts of barbarity they forcibly dragged virtuous and inoffensive females from their dwellings bound them upon benches used for public worship where they [p. [4]]