I was rereading today Clyde's post of last November. The description of the English settlers burning alive the Indian children, women, and disabled: "They were in much doubt," it says of the settlers. I hope so. There is an almost identical account of the burning of an Indian village in Westchester co., NY, where Ephraim Knowlton (1676) immigrated. The account there was that after brush was piled up and the fire set, there was not a single sound as the entire village perished inside their wigwams. How sure we always are that what we choose to do to other people is the right way. Elizabeth Message text written by INTERNET:KNOWLTON-L@rootsweb.com >Meanwhile, the English had set fire to the wigwams, some 600 in number, and flames swept through the crowded fort. The "shrieks and cries of the women and children, the yelling of the warriors, exhibited a most horrible and appalling scene, so that it greatly moved some of the soldiers. They were in much doubt and they afterwards seriously inquired whether burning their enemies alive could be consistent with humanity and the benevolent principle of the gospel," says one early account. The retreating Indians were driven from the woods about the fort, leaving the English a complete, though costly, victory. They had lost five captains and 20 men and had some 150 wounded that must be carried back to a house some ten miles distant. To the terrors of the battle and fire were added the bitter cold and blinding snow of a New England blizzard through which the English toiled back to Cocumcussa. The hardships of that march took a toll of 30 or 40 more lives. The Indians reported a loss of 40 fighting men and one sachem killed and some 300 old men, women and children burned alive in the wigwams. < Elizabeth W. Knowlton