example of a 1770s NC cabin First Generation "Mrs. Oxendein sitting with her husband one evening in their log cabin, a pot of corn was boiling on the fire, and they were sitting there happy together, playing with their young child (picture of a happy & contented young family) - After his death they put his body on two chairs - with the blood dropping down - then she went to the door & called to the Indians to come & kill her too - but she did not afterward hear as much as a leaf move." The wife is Martha, the husband Benjamin, and their young child is Catherine. ( see Robertson Pedigree Chart ) Martha told this story in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, where she and Catherine fled in 1783. Why is there a break in the story, no account of the actual
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