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Some said the house was cursed. That each generation since the house was built had visited upon it some horror. The first, when Hepzibah was taken from the house during the 1704 massacre. Killed while being marched to Montreal. 1730, and young Samuel succumbed to fever, his tiny cries feeble at first, and then growing more and more alarmed until finally it seemed he had cried all he could. His small throat raw and blistered and his cries barely a whisper before he went quiet. 1768, William, under crushing gambling debt, strode to the barn before dawn and stripped himself naked, flogged his back with a cat-o-nine he’d made from scrap bridle leather, and then hanged himself from the barn’s seventh rafter.