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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 2 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
d on the 1675 soil of Virginia, and had been avenged by the militia on the borders. T. M.'s Account, 8. As dangers increased, the River Potomac was guarded; and a body of Virginians, under the command of John Washington, the great grandfather of George Washington, himself perhaps a surveyor, who had emigrated from the north of England to America eighteen years before, and had planted himself as a farmer in the county of Westmoreland, crossed the river to assist the people of Maryland A. Cotton's Account of our Late Troubles in Virginia, p. 3. in besieging the common enemy. The warfare was Chap. XIV.} 1675. conducted with vengeful passions. When six of the hostile chieftains presented themselves as messengers to treat of a reconciliation, in the blind fury of the moment they were murdered. Burwell Account of Bacon and Ingram's Rebellion, first printed in Mass. Hist. Coll. XI. 27, &c. Reprinted by P. Force in 1835. So, too, Cotton, p. 3. The outrage was rebuked by Berkele