The settlers were shot down as they sat by their hearth-stones in the evening, or ploughed the ground during the day; the lurking Indians crept up and killed them while they still-hunted the deer, or while they lay in wait for the elk beside the well-beaten game trails.
The captured women and little ones were driven off to the far interior.
The weak among them, the young children, and the women heavy with child, were tomahawked and scalped as soon as their steps faltered.

The able-bodied, who could stand the terrible fatigue, and reached their journey's end, suffered various fates.

Some were burned at the stake, others were sold to the French or British traders, and long afterwards made their escape, or were ransomed by their relatives.

Still others were kept in the Indian camps, the women becoming the slaves or wives of the warriors, [Footnote: Occasionally we come across records of the women afterwards making their escape; very rarely they took their half-breed babies with them.

De Haas mentions one such case where the husband, though he received his wife well, always hated the copper-colored addition to his family; the latter, by the way, grew up a thorough Indian, could not be educated, and finally ran away, joined the Revolutionary army, and was never heard of afterwards.] while the children were adopted into the tribe, and grew up precisely like their little red-skinned playmates.