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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 a raiding party of Native Americans hiding nearby. Five men and children were killed. Allen died while trying to protect three of his children children and others in the group. Caleb Allen, age 9, escaped by hiding in a corn field and Samuel Allen jr., age 8, was taken captive to Canada. Allen's 13-year-old daughter, Eunice, survived a tomahawk blow to her head but was permanently disabled. The Allen family preserved fragments of the shirt Samuel Allen was wearing that fateful day, now in the collections of Memorial Hall Museum in Deerfield.