Half a mile behind the fort an English woman, Mrs Turnbull, and her two sons cultivated a small farm.

All three were straightway slain.

A party of Ottawas leapt into their canoes and paddled swiftly to Ile au Cochon, where lived a former sergeant, James Fisher.

Fisher was seized, killed, and scalped, his young wife brutally murdered, and their two little children carried into captivity.

On this same day news was brought to the fort that Sir Robert Davers and Captain Robertson had been murdered three days before on Lake St Clair by, Chippewas who were on their way from Saginaw to join Pontiac's forces.