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Excerpt about Richard and Mary Sisson:
Some colonists were spared by Indians allied with King Philip—not
all wanted to see their English friends and neighbors fall.
Richard Sisson, a 1671 settler of Westport, Mass., was warned his
home was to be burned, wife, Mary, and children killed--one and all.
So the Sissons put their valuables in a copper kettle and buried them
under the water at the edge of a pond opposite their house.
In woods just east, the Indians held a war dance under a honey locust tree and set the Sisson home on fire—letting it rage, not to douse.
The Sissons found their house in flames and Indians on burial hill
throwing the feathers from a bed to the wind, laughing at the sport.
The Sissons used that moment of Indian distraction to flee through
woods to find protection in Newport.
Richard Sisson, a 1671 settler of Westport, Mass., was warned his
home was to be burned, wife, Mary, and children killed--one and all.
So the Sissons put their valuables in a copper kettle and buried them
under the water at the edge of a pond opposite their house.
In woods just east, the Indians held a war dance under a honey locust tree and set the Sisson home on fire—letting it rage, not to douse.
The Sissons found their house in flames and Indians on burial hill
throwing the feathers from a bed to the wind, laughing at the sport.
The Sissons used that moment of Indian distraction to flee through
woods to find protection in Newport.
Above poem excerpt taken from book, First Ranger Benjamin Church: Epic Poem About King Philip's War--Church Believed in Indians, God and Rum. Click here to read more then click on "Look Inside".
The account of Richard and Mary Sisson in King Philip's War was retrieved from: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dasisson/richard/aqwg01.htm where it states:
"The earliest Proprietor that I am able to learn of in this vicinity was a Mr. Richard Sisson who owned the South West corner of the 'Head of the River'....It was burned by the Indians during King Philip's war in 1676. A friendly Indian informed Mr. Sisson's family of the Indians' intentions to murder them and burn the house, and they immediately put their valuables into a copper kettle and buried them in the water at the edge of the pond opposite the house. The Indians meanwhile had been holding a war dance in the woods under a Honey Locust tree (East of the House). When the family returned from the river, the house was on fire and some of the Indians had a feather bed up on the burial hill which they had opened and were throwing the contents to the wind, and laughing at the sport. Mr. Sisson's family escaped through the woods, and took shelter with their friends. Another statement is that they were taken to the blockhouse at Newport for protection--this was probably done." (From "The Growth of Westport," by Curtis Pierce, book in the collection of Westport Free Public Library, Unpublished manuscript, 1893, p. 3.)
