The Bloodborn — Robert Leckie

The relief party arrived at the frontier settlement of Schenectady too late. All they found were smoldering ruins and the hideously butchered corpses of men and women. The French and Indian raiders had left only one living being behind -- a squalling newborn child, who had come into the world amid the carnage of battle. Jed Gill was the name of this child of violence who grew up to be the kind of man that only an untamed new land could breed. In a wilderness America that was the prize in savage war between England and France, Jed fought his own war to settle the score of the past -- and to found a family that would carry his legacy of courage and daring into the American future....