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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 5 5 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 2 2 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
d deputies to me as the mouth of your nation, I promise you, you shall come and return in safety. The Indians had become dependent on civilization; and to withhold supplies, was not only like a general embargo, but also like disarming a nation. The English, said they, would leave us defenseless, that they may utterly destroy us. Jealousy spread from wigwam to wigwam; belts circulated more and more among the villages. They feared the worst, Captain Paul Demere to Gov. Lyttleton, 13 September, 1759. I can assure you, that the Indians over here were peaceable until they heard the ammunition was stop, and then they grew very uneasy. and narrowly watched the roads, that no white man might pass. We have nothing to do, said some among them, wild with rage, but to kill the white people here, and carry their scalps to the French, who will supply us with plenty of ammunition and every thing else. Ibid. The nation was, however, far from being united against the English; a large number