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But on August 14, 1676 during King Philip's War, the settlement was destroyed.
The evening before, an Indian woman appeared at the door of the Clarke and Lake fort seeking shelter.
She was admitted, and in the dead of night quietly opened the gate.
In rushed warriors, and in the massacre which followed, 30 colonists were either killed and scalped or taken into captivity.
Captain Thomas Lake, Sylvanus Davis and two others seized a canoe and paddled to Parker's Island ( now Georgetown ), where all but Lake escaped alive from their pursuers.
As the warehouse was looted and village burned to ashes, a brave sported the captain's hat.
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