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[Bars Fight, August 25, 1746, in] Negro Slavery in Old Deerfield
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1 “August 'twas the twenty-fifth
2 Seventeen hundred forty-six
3 The Indians did in ambush lay
4 Some very valient men to slay
5 The names of whom I'll not leave out
6 Samuel Allen like a hero fout
7 And though he was so brave and bold
8 His face no more shall we behold
9 Eleazer Hawks was killed outright
10 Before he had time to fight
11 Before he did the Indians see
12 Was shot and killed immediately
13 Oliver Amsden he was slain
14 Which caused his friends much grief and pain
15 Simeon Amsden they found dead
16 Not many rods off from his head.
17 Adonijah Gillet, we do hear
18 Did lose his life which was so dear
19 John Saddler fled across the water
20 And so escaped the dreadful slaughter
21 Eunice Allen see the Indians comeing
22 And hoped to save herself by running
23 And had not her petticoats stopt her
24 The awful creatures had not cotched her
25 And tommyhawked her on the head
26 And left her on the ground for dead.
27 Young Samuel Allen, Oh! lack-a-day
28 Was taken and carried to Canada.”

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Title (in Source Edition): [Bars Fight, August 25, 1746, in] Negro Slavery in Old Deerfield
Author: Lucy Terry
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PrinceLucy Terryd. 1821 [Bars Fight, August 25, 1746, in] Negro Slavery in Old Deerfield [Boston?]: [], 1893, p. 56. 56p.

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