Some  of  her  neighbors  also  suffered,  eighteen  of
them  being  killed,  and  their  cattle,  put  into
bams,  were  burned.  The  place  of  the  tragedy
was  on  Pelham  Neck.  The  region  was  called
Anne's  Hoeok,  or  Point.  Several  women  and
children  were  saved  in  a  boat.  When  Mrs.
Hutchinson's  little  granddaughter  was  deliver-
ed to  the  Dutch  at  New  Amsterdam,  four  years
afterwai-ds,  according  to  the  terms  of  a  treaty,
to  be  sent  to  her  friends  in  Boston,  she  had  for-
gotten her  own  language,  and  did  not  wish  to
leave  her  Indian  friends.
HtrrCHINSON


663  HUTCHINSONIAN  CONTEOVERSY,  THE


Hntchinson  in  the  Massachusetts  Council.
Thomas  HntcbiDsou,  appointed  lienteiiant-gov-
emor  of  Massachusetts,  having  received  com-
pensation for  his  losses  (see  Eiot  in  Bostmi),  took
a  seat  in  Governor  Bernard's  Council  (January,
1767),  where  he  had  no  right.  The  Massachu-
setts Assembly  resented  this  usurpation,  this
"  lust  of  power,"  in  intruding  into  an  elective
body  to  which  he  had  not  been  chosen.  The
Council,  by  unanimous  vote,  denied  the  preten-
sions of  the  intruder,  for  the  language  of  the
charter  was  too  clear  to  admit  of  a  doubt ;  yet
Bernard  urged  the  interposition  of  the  British
government  to  keep  him  there.  This  conduct
of  the  crown  officers  greatly  irritated  the  people.
Hutchinson  Letters,  The.  Early  in  1773,
letters  written  by  Governor  Hutchinson  and
others  of  the  crown  officers  in  Massachusetts  to
Mr.  Whately,  one  of  the  under  secretaries  of  the
government,  were  put  into  the  hands  of  Dr.
