The best evidence of the fate of Frances Hite is the journal of Arthur Fairies, a member of the South Carolina militia that was called out a week after the attack on Jacob and his family:
July the eight day, being Monday, we assembled . . . to engage the Indians, on account of the insurrections they made on the white inhabitants, killing and plundering all they came to.
Arthur Fairies’ Revolutionary War Journal
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Thursday, the eighth [of August], . . . came along the said Savannah river to a town called Chittiogo, where we killed one squaw and captivated a squaw and two negroes, and got information from the captives of an Indian camp up in the mountains, where was confined old Mrs. Hite, and her two daughters, whom they took prisoners, when they killed the remainder of the family . . .
So on Friday, the ninth, we started about daylight, and marched down to their camp, but they were all fled, and had carried Mrs. Hight about one hundred yards from their camp, and had killed her there, leaving her on her face, naked.