The farmer and mechanic., 1915-06-15


whole family; nevertheless, L did not
dare to look as if it affected me. II
mad 10 remain for six weeks a pris-
oner IN that hateful place, Content
nea, always in fear of unutterable
dangers and sorrows"
Though more than two hundred
years mas elapsed, the heart must be
cold indeed that feels no emotion of
sorrow when reading this pitiful tale
of misery that came to our early set
tiers. The poor women and children
taken prisoners, history does not di-
vulge their fate.
The Palatines We're religious peo-
pie and it is stated that they consent
ed to adopt, for the most part. the
esta bllshed Church of England, but
numDly asked for man that could
read the service in low Dutch, for
their better understanding 1t was
an irony of fate that John Lawson
| should have been murdered SO cruel
| ~ by the very Indians of whom he
| had written SO confidently of their
kindness, claiming that this was the
only instance of a colony being plant
| ed in peace and without bloodshed Of
the natives. Little did he dream as
he penned these lines that his own
life would be the first sacrifice in q
t-naSSacre, as one writer puts it "Of
one hundred and thirty victims on
| Roanoke, sixty, or more, Of the Pala-
tines on Neuse, and in Bath and vi
cinity the number we know not of
those who fell under the knife and
tomahawk. The blow was so hotly
followed by the hellish crew that we
could not bury our dead, SO that they
were left for prey to the dogs and
wolves and vultures, whilst our care
was to strengthen our garrisons tc
secure the living" (Col. Rec, Vol.
\ n -
: day was observed as a fast day by
! legislative enactment. Such an ap-
palling sacrifice Of life in a bare
country made necessary the destruc
ton of the Indians and their final de
r parture from this part of the State
: or the entire colony would have beer
, exterminated in a short while.
Aid was sent from South Carolin;
under Col. BarnWell, for whom For
! BarnWell, near New Bern, was named
OF the other ten garrisOns there wa
s the garrison at Bath Town, of whicl
e Christopher Gale wrote that his wifi
S and brother had taken refuge; For
y Reading nearly opposite, on the plan
tation of Lionel Reading. on sout
a side of PamlicO river. said to hav
f repelled the attack of 200 Indian
t with a garrison of only ten men Co
Il Rec, Vol. l, p. 682, S42); Fort Hyd
e at Core TOWne, named for Gov. Hyd
9 (Col. Rec, Vol l, p. 843); Garrison
), Point on Pamlico River, lower dowr
h and probably the Fort of Roanok
g Island; of the remaining four fort
e or garrisons it would be interestin
It to have the names, as every one ful
= nished protection. at that early pt
e riod-though so inadequate in tf
s. light of modern times.
j., SurveyOr-General Lawson made h
# home in Bath Town and left propert
y,
nc daughter, Isabella Lawson; these wei
reassigned to her, in IT'S, after tt
n massacre. by the new commissions
- Of the town.
r OF the early Inhabitants he left tn
Ia record: "As for those Of our COUNT
is (England) in Carolina some of tt
,h men are very lahOrious and NAL
"a great improvements in their way, b
OF l dare hardly give them that chara
q" ter in general. The easy way Of Ii
ne ing in that plentiful country makes
81 great many planters very negligeT
;; which were they otherwise, that col
~ ny might now have been in a far be
as as ter condition that it is, as to tra
nc and other advantages, which an uT
III versal industry would have led the
=. into"
OF 1.-The women are the most indust1
a Gus sex in that place, and, by .ths
OK good housewifery, make a great dc
Wy Of cloth of their cotton, wool a.
nd flax; some of them keeping The
gn families, though large, very decent
nd apparelled, both linens and woolel
rt. so that they have no occasion to r
a. into the merchants debt, or lay tn
money out on stores Of clOthing.'
ge Lawson's history was probably wr
ST. ten before 1908, and presented to t
OIL Proprietors about 170S9, as it "
res first published in London in 1714, a
ly. it was republished in Raleigh in 1S
ter 1t is interesting to note that at t
he time that Lawson wrote and labOu1
he for the colony the old county Of Be
,rd extended to the borders Of SOJ
ip- Carolina; New Hanover being put
son the map as a precinct Of Bath coun
,ck After the failure of Bath Town
fer develop some of its leading men, ST
as Maurice Moore, Jean Ba apti
AShe, and other moved to New H;