The Events at Lewiston-- Part 3: "Many Innocent Persons Were Butchered"

**  "The citizens about Lewiston escaped by the Ridge Road, all going the one road on foot--  old and young, men, women , and children flying from their beds, some not more than half dressed, without shoes or stockings, together with men on horseback, wagons, carts, sleighs, and sleds overturning and crushing each other, stimulated by the horrid yells of the 900 savages in pursuit, which last eight miles, formed a scene awful and terrific in the extreme."

Jonas Harrison, Lewiston resident, December 24, 1813.

**   "Lewiston was sacked, , plundered, and destroyed -- made a perfect desolation.    Free course was given to the blood-thirsty Indians, and many  innocent persons were butchered, and survivors were made to fly in terror through the deep snow to some forest shelter or remote cabin of a settler far beyond the invaders track."

--Benson Lossing , "Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812", published1869.

--Brock-Perry