"And now famine beginning to look ghastly and pale in every face (so) that nothing was spared to maintain life, and to do those things which seem incredible, as to dig up dead corpses out of graves and eat them. And some have licked up the blood which hath fallen from their weak fellows. And, amongst the rest, this was most lamentable, that one of our Colony murdered his wife, ripped the child out of her womb, and threw it into the river; and after chopped the mother in pieces, and salted her for his food; the same not being discovered before he had eaten part thereof. For the which cruel and inhuman fact I adjudged him to be executed, the acknowledgment of the deed being enforced from him by torture, having hung by the thumbs, with weights at his feet, a quarter of an hour before he would confess the same."
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Another account of the Starving Time: Governor George Percy, A True Relation of the Proceedings... in Virginia (c. 1624); reported in Conway Whittle Sams, The Conquest of Virginia: The Third Attempt, 1610–1624 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939), p. 103
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