 According to one estimate, at least fourteen Lancaster inhabitants died and twenty-three were captured and taken as prisoners.Eventually, Marlborough troops arrived, forcing the Indians to withdraw with their new captives.After the raid, the medicine man, Tantamous (Old Jethro), and ten other Indians were falsely accused of the murders allegedly due to their "singing, dancing, and having much powder and many bullets and slugs hid in their baskets," but they were acquitted when the true murderer, Monoco, a Nashaway, was discovered, and Peter Jethro, Tantamous' son, actually communicated with the captors of Mary Rowlandson to obtain her release.