History of Northampton, Massachusetts, from its settlement in 1654;

262 HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTON. [I'irr,.
Momiineiit Ereoted. Oiie lumclred sixty years afterwards an appropriate
monument was erected and dediicated
to tlie memory of tlie slain in the fight at "•Muddy
Brook," which was afterwards, because of the massacre,
named ''Bloody Brook."
Deei-fleid Abau- A fcw days subsequeut to the defeat of
doned. Lotlirop. the garrison was ordered away,
and the inhabitants of Deerfield abandoned
the place. It contained more than twenty families, most
of them from other towns in the valley. This was the
third village deserted within the limits of Hampshire
County, during the few months in which the war had been
in progress. Up to this time the success of the Indians
had been uninterrupted, and panic and uncertainty prevailed
everywhere. The inhabitants of Northfield and
Deerfield fled to the remaining settlements in the county,
which iDy this addition, and the troops quartered in them,
must have been filled to overflowing.
Northfield uo longer Tliis disaster SO discoucerted the plans of
Tenable. Soldiers
in the Hampshire
Towns.
the Harhford Couucil, that the design of
.
i p i-o t^t j.i ^ i i
occupying and rortitymg Northfield was
no longer feasible, and orders to certain
other Connecticut forces to reinforce Treat at that place,
were countermanded. About the first of October, Capt.
Samuel Appleton had a company at Hadley, Capt. Joseph
Sill another at Northampton, and Capt. Samuel Moseley a
third at Hatfield. Within a few days Lieut. Phinehas
Upham with thirty men, and Capt. Jonathan Poole of Reading,
with thirty-five more, arrived. The Indian allies from
Connecticut returned home on the 23'' of September.
Major Pync-hon Re- Major Pyncliou, wliose farm-liouse and
signs his Com- "bams at "West Springfield, had been burned
mand, and Capt. tixt- i r~i
Appleton is Ap- by the ln(hans on the 26*" of Sej^tember,
pointed. and who liad previously sent in his request
to be relieved from the duties of commander-in-chief, re-
signed on the oO'*'. Among other reasons, he urged the dis-
tressed state of his affairs at home, "the sorrows and afflictions
my dear wife undergoes and her continual calls to me