1724 August 6 (Thursday). I rode round to Boston but did not get there till Lecture was over. The News was Malden Emerson’s[1] House was Burnt last Friday Night. Four Men taken at Rutland, 3 kill’d and one Captur’d.[2] There was one more wounded. I rode up to Cambridge to Night though it rain’d all the way.
[1]Reverend Joseph Emerson (Harvard 1717) of Maiden. Boston News-Letter, Aug. 6, 1724. Sibley, VI, 170-175.
[2]Boston News-Leiter, Aug. 6, 1724. The three men who perished were James Clark, Joseph Wood and Uriah Wood. Eleazer Ball was wounded. The name of a boy captured is unknown. Blake, Rutland and the Indian Troubles, pp. 10-11.