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he rode up to them and endeavoured to bring back to a Sense of their duty but in vain their Cry was Death or Liberty and a ship to take them home - however the Major by a successful Manouver cut off their two Leaders and the Soilders began to fire upon them they made but little Resistance Seventeen were killed they began to fly in all directions till the Night which was excessive dark put an end to the pursuit -
nothing can equel the Horror and Consternation of the Country the Women and Children Running from Farm to Farm but coud find no place of Safety for three days we continued in this most wretched state of suspence knowing we were surrounded by numbers of armed Ruffians as the fellows hd at first surrounded all the Passes into Parramatta many of them are now in the Woods and being armed the Settlers will be constantly exposed to them, Plunder they must for subsistance, Dreadful indeed must be the State of a country within Such Villians as those are let loose upon it, every insult every injury and every crime is to be expected from them that can be perpetrated by Men so desperate hardened and depraved indeed so many are the Crimes that have been committed by them for the last twelve months that the bare recital is Shocking to Human Nature, Rapes, Murders Robberys, Settlers Wives have been rushed in upon by Seven or Eight Men knocked down treated in the Most Cruel Manner and Ravished in Sight of their Family, no person in the Colony is secure either in Life or Property except the Officers Civil and Military Such is the State of things at present and has been for a twelvemoths past about a twelvemonths Since twelve men left the Above Settement threatening the Whole Country Shot a man at a small destance from my Farm, at another Farm two of the Scoundrels Broke in to the House Seized the Women and Ravished a young Woman in Sight of her Mother Since that this worst of all Crimes to Society has [Seventy?] times been Comitted upon the defenceless and unprotected Settlers