Throughout the 1800s, colonials were being attacked and captivated my native American who were known as savages. In the narratives, the surviving captives told their stories of what they went through when the savages got a hold of them. People also told stories of the captives who died during their captivity. They talk about their experiences on how they lived during their captivity and if they died, they told how it happen and what the savages did to them. Lieutenant Thomas Boyd of the Rifle Corps from New York lived in the 1770s. He was known for being captured by Indian savages and dying a cruel death by being tortured in the revolution in a town called Little Beard but is now known as Leicester on September 13th, 1770. In the extreme western …show more content…
It was a little past sunrise and Baldwin’s family was frightened by the sighting of a savage who was painted and armed with a tomahawk and a scalping knife and was hiding in a bush. Once he was discovered, he gave out a war cry that signaled nine or ten other savages that came out from the forest and approached his home with raised tomahawks. The savages started to pound on the door trying to gain entrance into his home. They soon succeed by cutting a passage with their tomahawks. The savages started to set the house on fire which made Baldwin and his family to exit their home. As Baldwin’s oldest son tried to escape, he was chased down. As one of the wretches was about to tear off his scalp, he was killed by a blow from another. His wife was also killed in front of him and his two remaining kids. Baldwin tried to escape but was soon hunted down by the savages and soon became one of their prisoners along with his daughter and youngest son. After the savages raided their home and took their valuable goods, they traveled back to their territory that was twelve miles away. During their captivity, Baldwin was forced to watch the savages burning his youngest son alive on a stake as they danced around him. “For half an hour [his] ears were pierced with the dreadful shrieks and dying groans of [his] poor child.” He fainted twice during this process but was brought back b getting water thrown in his face by his tormentors. The same night, the savages intoxicated themselves with whiskey and Baldwin took the opportunity to escape. When the guards were sound asleep, Baldwin got free and ran until the break of day running twelve or more miles. He left his daughter behind because it was unsafe for him to try to rescue her. As he was hiding in a tree, he was found by a friendly Indian. The friendly Indian took him back to Boonboro where he met with his old friends and acquaintances. Baldwin was in