Honoured MotherHonoured Mother After my duty & my wifes presented to your Selfe these may inform you...

Contributed to Maine Memory Network by Maine Historical Society(Coll. 420, Box 7/32)Date: 1676Description: Thaddeus Clark letter to his mother

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Honoured MotherAfter my duty & my wifes presented to your Selfe these may inform you [page torn]present health of our present being when other of our friends are by the [page torn]barous heathen cut off from having a being in this World The Lord [page torn]late hath renewed his witnesses against us & hath dealt very bitterly with usin that we are deprived of the Societie of our nearest friends by the break in in the morninging ^ of the advesarie against us. On Friday last ^ your own Son with yourtwo Sons in Law Anthony & Thomas Bracket & their whole families werekilled & taken by the Indians, we know not how, tis certainly known byus that Thomas is slain & his wife & children carried away captive, ofand ^ Anthony & his familie we have no tidings & therfore think that theymight be captivated the night before because of the remoteness of their habitation from neighbourhood, Gm Corban & all his family Gm Lewis & hiswife, James Ross & all his family, Gm Durham, John Munjoy & Dan Hadwelliel Wakely Bejamin ^ Martin & all his family are lost, all slain bySun an hour high in the Morning & after, Gm Wallis his dwelling arehouse & none besides his is burnt. we there ^ of men slain 11, of women & children 23 killed & taken, we that are alive are forced uponMr Andrew’s his Island to secure our own & the lives of our familieswe have but little provision & are so few in number that we are notable to bury the dead till more strength come to us, the desire ofthe people to your Self is that you would be pleased to speak to MrMunjoy & Deacon Philips that they would entreat the Governour thatforthwith aid might be sent to us either to fight the enemie out of our bordersthat our english corn may be inned in wherby we may comfortably liveor remove us out of danger that we may provide for our Selves elsewherehaving no more at present but desiring your prayer to God for hispreservation of us in these times of danger, I rest. Your dutifull Son Thaddeus Clark. from Casco Bay 14.6.76.[written vertically on left edge] remember my love to my Sister &c

Thesefor his honoured Moth[page torn]Mrs Elisabeth Harvy living in Boston.