The old log cabin of the James Quick and the Abraham Winfield families was located in the Clove section of Montague Township (New Jersey). William Bross, who later became the Lt. Gov. of Illinois, was born in this log cabin. Bross donated the Tom Quick monument in memory of his ancestor (Tom Quick Sr.) who was viewed as Milford's pioneer settler and was later killed and scalped by the Indians. His son, Tom Quick (Jr.), known as The Indian Slayer or Indian Avenger, was Bross great- great-uncle. Bross had heard many tales about Tom Quick from his grandmother, Margaret Quick Winfield.
Image is from the New Jersey Herald website.One of the tales concerning Tom Quick the Indian Slayer that William Bross would have heard from his grandmother is as follows:
Tom Quick (Jr.) sought revenge for the Indians' brutal murder of his father; he thus proclaimed:
“By the point of the knife in my right hand and the deadly bullet in my left;
By Heaven and all that there is in it and by earth and all that there is on it;
By the love I bore my father; here on this grave I swear eternal vengeance against the whole Indian race.
I swear to kill all and spare none; the old man with his silver hair; the lisping babe without teeth; the mother quick with child and the maiden in the bloom of youth shall die.
A voice from my father’s grave cries, ‘Revenge! Eternal Revenge!'”
– Allerton’s “Hawk’s Nest.”
“By the point of the knife in my right hand and the deadly bullet in my left;
By Heaven and all that there is in it and by earth and all that there is on it;
By the love I bore my father; here on this grave I swear eternal vengeance against the whole Indian race.
I swear to kill all and spare none; the old man with his silver hair; the lisping babe without teeth; the mother quick with child and the maiden in the bloom of youth shall die.
A voice from my father’s grave cries, ‘Revenge! Eternal Revenge!'”
– Allerton’s “Hawk’s Nest.”
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