On most of the plantations the houses were given to the flames, the inhabitants plundered of all their possessions, and the stock, especially the sheep, wantonly shot or bayoneted.

Wemyss seems to have been particularly hostile to looms and sheep, simply because they supplied the inhabitants with clothing.

He seldom suffered the furniture to be withdrawn from a dwelling which he had doomed to be destroyed: Presbyterian churches he burnt religiously, as so many "sedition-shops".

It was fortunate for the wretched country, thus ravaged, that the corn was not generally housed; it was only in part destroyed.

Had the Tories played the same game in the cornfields of the patriots, that Grant's men had done in those of the Cherokees, as recorded in an early page of this volume,* the devastation would have been complete.