Here’s another tale of our New England ancestors:
Staying on personal Quaker histories (which seem to engage readers considerably) we have a anecdote sent us by our Friend Albert Lamb, who pens our delightful Inklings cartoons. This story, handed down by Albert’s great-uncle Albert Boyden, concerns the Varney family.
‘Ebenezer Varney built a house in Dover, New Hampshire in 1680’, says our Albert. His uncle wrote: ‘These Varneys were Quakers whose kindness had been so generously bestowed upon the local Indians that when the famous Indian massacre was visited upon the Dover Settlement, the Varney home was spared amid the carnival of bloodshed, and the Varneys next morning were active in errands of mercy among the wounded and dying’.