11 Jun 1695  "Ann Jenkins, her within written testimony."

The testimony of Ann Jenkins, in the trail of Bomazeen, at Boston, is of great interest as a pciture of the times, and because of its incidental mention of other characters.  It seems that the powerful and cruel Chief, escaped with his life at this trial, and was slain at the attack on the village of Norridgeocks, in 1724.

"An Jenkins, of full age, Testifieth & saith, that at Oyster River, on the eighteenth of July last past, in hte morning about hte dawning of the day, my husband being up, went out of the dore & presently returning cried to me & our children to run for our lives, for hte Indians had beset the town:  whereupon my husband & myself fled with our children into our corne field, & at our entrance into the field, Bomazeen, whoume I have see since I came out of captivity in the prison, came towards us & about tenn Indian more: & the sd Bomazeen then shot at my husband and shote him down, ran to him & struck him three blows on the head with a hatchen, scalped him & run him three times with a bayonet.  I also saw the sadi Bomazeen knock one of my children on the head, & tooke of her scalp, & then put the child into her father's armes, & then stabbed the breast.  And Bomazeen also tehn killed my husband's grandmother, & scalped her, and tehn led me up to a house, and plundered it, & then set it on fire, & carried me & my three children into captivity, together with the rest of our neighbors, whose lives were spared, being at first forty nine: but in one miles goeing, or thereabouts, they killed three children, so there remained forty six captives. & that night the company parted, I , this deponent, numbered one hundred and fourty of Indians, & fourteen frenchmen, & then when I tooke the account, there were more fireing at Woodmans garrison, & at Burnhams garrison: but the number uknown to me.  My self with nine captives more, were carried up to penecook & were Left with three Indians. & that party went to Greaten Bomazeen, being their Commander.  In nine days they returned, & brought twelve captives: & from thence with their canoes, sometimes a float, & sometimes carried, untill that we came to Norridgeawocke, which tooke us fifteene days, & staid about twoe months there, then dispersed into the woods, twoe or three families in a place, untill they brought us down to pemaquid, & delivered us to Capt March.  Bomazeen was my Master: his wife my Mistriss, untill Bomazeen was taken at pemaquid; after that I belonged to his wife, untill about two months before I was brough down to pemaquid: for then the Indian Minister, called Prince Waxaway, bought me, when I was brough to great weakness and extremity by their bad usage, and showed me great kindness; by whose meanes, under god, my life was preserved.  My misstriss was very cruel to me, & I was cruelly whipt seaven times, & they intended to so proceed, once a week, untill they had killed me: but that Indian Minister had compassion on me, & rescued me.  that Indian Minister also bought three captives more, and freed them from their hard usage.  Their names are Nicholas Frost, Sarah Bragginton and Thomsand Drue.  The mark of  W An Jenkins."

Ann Jenkins made oth to the Truth of this Her within written evidence, this 11th day of June, 1695--- Before me, Barthl. Gedney. Just. Peace.