 | Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 596 pages
...impunity defenseless women and children. " Upward of one hundred men, women, and children," said Gates, " have perished by the hands of the ruffians, to whom,...it is asserted, you have paid the price of blood." Burgoyne flatly denied this assertion, and declared that the case of Jane M'Crea was the only act of... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - United States - 1851 - 610 pages
...own happy and peaceful dwellings. The miserable fate of Miss M'Crea was peculiarly aggravated by her being dressed to receive her promised husband — but met her murderer, employed by you. Upwards of one hundred men, women, and children, have perished by the hands of ruffians, to whom it... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 802 pages
...impunity defenseless women and children. " Upward of one hundred men, women, and children," said Gates, " have perished by the hands of the ruffians, to whom,...it is asserted, you have paid the price of blood." Burgoyne flatly denied this assertion, and declared that the case of Jane M'Crea was the only act of... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 802 pages
...impunity defenseless women and children. " Upward of one hundred men, women, and children," said Gates, " have perished by the hands of the ruffians, to whom,...it is asserted, you have paid the price of blood." Burgoyne flatly denied this assertion, and declared that the case of Jane M'Crea was the only act of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1871 - 1186 pages
...while quietly resting in their once happy and peaceful dwelling. Upwards of one hundred men, women, uud children, have perished by the hands of the ruffians,...it is asserted you have paid the price of blood." Gates showed his letter to General Lincoln and Colonel Wilkinson, who demurred to its personality ;... | |
 | William Henry Carpenter, Timothy Shay Arthur - Vermont - 1872 - 272 pages
...particularly aggravated by being dressed to receive her promised husband, but met her murderer appointed by you. Upward of one hundred men, women, and children...it is asserted, you have paid the price of blood." General Burgoyne, in his reply, inveiglis against "the rhapsodies of fiction and calumny" which it... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1873 - 548 pages
...murderers were employed by Burgoyne, and declaring that more than one hundred men, women and children had perished by the hands of the ruffians " to whom, it is asserted/' he said, " you have paid the price of blood." To these charges Burgoyne made a dignified, and no 22... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 618 pages
...treated with the same inhumanity while quietly resting in their once happy and peaceful dwelling. Upwards of one hundred men, women, and children, have perished...it is asserted you have paid the price of blood." Gates showed his letter to General Lincoln and Colonel Wilkinson, who demurred to its personality ;... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 590 pages
...treated with the same inhumanity while quietly resting in their once happy and peaceful dwelling. Upwards of one hundred men, women, and children, have perished by the hands of the ruffians, to whom it is psserted you have paid the price of blood." Gates showed his letter to General Lincoln and Colonel... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - History - 1885 - 556 pages
...McCrea was particularly aggravated, by her being dressed to receive her promised husband ; but she met her murderer employed by you. Upward of .one hundred...it is asserted you have paid the price of blood." 4. General Burgoyne replied, and repelled with indignation the charge of encouraging, in any respect,... | |
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Upward of one hundred men, women, and children have perished by the hands of the ruffians to whom, it is asserted, you have paid the price of blood. 
