Howe, Elizabeth, of Marlborough. Born 16 July, 1675, the daughter ofJohn and Elizabeth (Ward). Her fther was killed at Sudbury in April, 1676 , and her soon married in Charletown, Captain Kerley. marlborough was at that time untenable, but the family returned later and there was Elizabeth's home. Her sister Sarah was the wife of Peter Joslin of Lancaster and Elizabeth was carried away from their house. Perhaps Joslin told the story to Mr. harrington, and perhaps he was in the meeeting-house and heard the parson repeat it inhis 'Century Sermon" of 1753 , fr he lutlived four wives , dying in 1759. It was "on the 18th July 1692 that the Indians assaulted the House of Mr. Peter Joslin, who was at his labour in the Field and knew nothing of it till entring the Housefound Wife and three Children and a Woman (the widow Hutchinson) that liv'd in his Family barbarously butsher'd by their Hatchets and weltering in their gore. His Wife's sister with on of the Children were carried off into Captivity, she return'd; but that child ws murdered in the wilderness. Thus was he stripped naked and called to bitter Weeping and Lamentation." The child, Peter, aged six, probably soon became a burden. Mrs. Bigelow in her "Reiniscenses of Marlborough" sys that Mrs. josli with a two year-old child was taken and that she so wearied the Indians by asking for release that they, gathering all together, pushed her naked into their midst, danced around her "in their hellish manner" knocked her and the child on the head and burnt their bodies, threatening others with similar punishment. But this is a much later story than Harrington's. She says also tha Elizabeth Howe had so sweet a voice that the Indians spared her life that she might "give sweet sounds," and when she complained the delay in her redemption (which was in 1696, according to Nourse, who says also thtat she was carried to Canada) that she was answered that had it been a question of bartering for furs it would have been soner accomplished. It is said that she kept certain Indian habits, such as sitting on the floor, and that she never recovered from the terror and shock, and tht one can easily believe. When captured-at seventeen-she was "about to be married" to Thomas keyes. he, believing her dead, took a solemn vow never to marry, which vow he gladly broke when Elizabeth came back, but not immediately if the dates are correct- the marriage in Marlborough being January 23, 1698/9. rhwy had a family of five children; she living to be eighty-nine years old. On 17 April, 1701, he House voted that three pounds and eighteen shillings be paid "to Mr. Thomas Howe, he having paid so much for the Redemption of Elizabeth Howe, who was Captive to an Indian." Thomas probably was Elizabeth's uncle. From NEW ENGLAND CAPTIVE CARRIED T CANADA by Emma Lewis Coleman-Heritage CClassic. i typed this in toto to give an example of what these volumes contain. Richard