Samuel Allen (1702-1746) was gathering hay with neighbors and members of his family during King George’s War on August 25, 1746, in “The Bars”, a section south of the village of Deerfield, Massachusetts, when they were ambushed by Native Americans hiding nearby.  Allen was killed and a fragment of the shirt he was wearing has been preserved in Memorial Hall Museum in Deerfield. His thirteen-year-old daughter, Eunice was tomahawked but survived. She knitted this stocking.