... on July 4 [1697], Lord's Day, Major Charles Frost, who had been a person of no little Consequence to our Frontier [commander of the York County Militia, judge of the Court of Common Pleas], Returning from the Public Worship of God, in Berwick, (to repair unto which, about Five miles from his own House, he had that morning expressed such an Earnestness, that much notice was taken of it,) pass'd several more Dangerous places, without any Damage; but in a place, on a little plain by the turn of a Path, where no Danger was Expected, the Adder in the path Surprized him; the Indians having Stuck up certain Boughs upon a Log, there mortally Shot him, with Two more, while his Two Sons, that were in the Front of the Company, happily escaped...."