And the Indians' protectors and advocates among the settlers were, it seems, singled out for attack...So the murder of Thorpe--which he faced stoically, "void of all suspition" and confident that the Indians meant him no harm...
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Captain Nathaniel Powell, one of the original settlers in the colony, well known to the natives whom he had favored, was slain, along with his family, decapitated, and his body "butcher-like, hagled" (mangled).
