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Long Island City (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ion of the two colonies of Hartford and New Haven; and, as the commissioners were desirous to make friends in the other colonies, they avoided all angry collisions, gave no countenance to a claim advanced by the duke of Hamilton to a large tract of territory in the colony, and, in arranging the limits of New York, though the charter of Clarendon's son-in-law extended to the River Connecticut, they established the boundary, on the main, in conformity with the claims of Connecticut itself. Long Island went to the duke of York. Satisfied with the harmony which they had secured by Chap. XII.} 1664. attempting nothing but for the interests of the colony, the commissioners saw fit to praise to the monarch the dutifulness and obedience of Connecticut, which was set off with the more lustre by the contrary deportment of Massachusetts. We shall soon have occasion to narrate the events in which Nichols was engaged at New York, where he remained. Carr, Cartwright, and Maverick, the other
Northampton (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
south, the whole Narragansett country was deserted by the English. Warwick was burned; Providence was attacked and set on fire. There was no security but to seek out the hiding-places of the natives, and destroy them by surprise. On the banks of the Connecticut, just above the Falls that take their name from the gallant Turner, was an encampment of large bodies of hostile Indians; a band of one hundred and fifty volunteers, from among the yeomanry of Springfield, Hadley, Hatfield, and Northampton, led by Turner and Holyoke, making a silent march in the dead of night, came at day-break upon the wigwams. May 19 The Indians are taken by surprise; some are shot down in their cabins; others rush to the river, and are drowned; others push from shore in their birchen canoes, and are hurried down the cataract. As the season advanced, the Indians abandoned every hope. Their forces were wasted; they had no fields that they could plant. Such continued warfare without a respite was agai
Falmouth, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
al rising of the Abenakis, or Eastern tribes, no gatherings of large bodies of men. Of the English settlements nearly one half were destroyed in detail; the inhabitants were either driven away, killed, or carried into captivity; for covetousness sometimes provoked to mercy, by exciting the hope of a ransom. The escape of Anne Brackett, grand-daughter of George Cleeves, the first settler of Portland, was the marvel of that day. Her family had been taken cap- Aug. 11. tives at the sack of Falmouth. When her captors hastened forward to further ravages on the Kennebeck, she was able to loiter behind; the eye of the mother discerned the wreck of a birchen bark, which, with needle and thread from a deserted house, she patched and repaired; then, with her husband, a negro servant, and her infant child, she trusted herself to the sea in the tattered canoe, which had neither sail nor mast, and was like a feather on the waves. She crossed Casco Bay, and, arriving at Black Point, where she
De Witt (Iowa, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
.—Prerogative is not above law, said the inflexible Hawthorne, ever the advocate of popular liberty. Mass. Hist. Coll. XVIII. 98. After much argument, obedience was refused. We have already—such was the reply of the general court—furnished our views in writing, so that the ablest persons among us could not declare our case more fully. This decision of disobedience was made at a time when the ambition of Louis XIV. of France, eager to grasp at the Spanish Netherlands, and united with De Witt by a treaty of partition, had, in consequence of his Dutch alliance, declared war against England. It was on this occasion, that the idea of the conquest of Canada was first distinctly proposed to New England. It was proposed only to be rejected as impossible. A land march of four hundred miles, over rocky mountains and howling deserts, was too terrible an obstacle. But Boston equipped several privateers, and Chap XII.} not without success. Mass. Hist. Coll. XVIII. 109. At the <
Southampton (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 2
n, said he from New Haven, is but a tryal of our courage; the Lord will be with his people while they are with him. If you consent to this court of appeals, you pluck down with your own hands the house which wisdom has built for you and your posterity. The elections in the spring of 1665 proceeded with great quiet; the people firmly sustained the govern- Chap XII.} 1664 ment. Meantime letters of entreaty had been sent to Robert Boyle and the earl of Manchester; for, from the days of Southampton and Sandys, of Warwick and Say, to those of Burke and Chatham, America was not entirely destitute of friends in England. But none of them would perceive the reasonableness of complaining against an abstract principle. We are all amazed, wrote Clarendon, who, says Robert Boyle, was no 1665 enemy to Massachusetts; you demand a revocation of the commission, without charging the commissioners with the least matter of crymes or exorbitances. Boyle echoed the astonishment: The commissioners
Ipswich, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
claims of Gorges, the government of Maine was to continue as the commissioners had left it. The general court was to execute such commands as exceeded the powers of the magistrates; the general court was therefore convened to consider the letter Sept. 11. from the king. The morning of the second day was spent in prayer; six elders prayed. The next day, after a lecture, some debate was had; and petitions, proposing compliance with the king, were afterwards forwarded from Boston, Salem, Ipswich, and Newbury. Let some regular way be propounded for the debate, Chap. XII.} 1666. said Bellingham, the governor, a man who emphatically hated a bribe.—The king's prerogative gives him power to command our appearance, said the moderate Bradstreet; before God and men we are to obey. —.You may have a trial at law, insinuated an artful royalist; when you come to England, you may insist upon it and claim it.—We must as well consider God's displeasure as the king's, retorted Willoughby; the i<
Chatham (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 2
rd will be with his people while they are with him. If you consent to this court of appeals, you pluck down with your own hands the house which wisdom has built for you and your posterity. The elections in the spring of 1665 proceeded with great quiet; the people firmly sustained the govern- Chap XII.} 1664 ment. Meantime letters of entreaty had been sent to Robert Boyle and the earl of Manchester; for, from the days of Southampton and Sandys, of Warwick and Say, to those of Burke and Chatham, America was not entirely destitute of friends in England. But none of them would perceive the reasonableness of complaining against an abstract principle. We are all amazed, wrote Clarendon, who, says Robert Boyle, was no 1665 enemy to Massachusetts; you demand a revocation of the commission, without charging the commissioners with the least matter of crymes or exorbitances. Boyle echoed the astonishment: The commissioners are not accused of one harmful thing, even in your private lett
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ither of our mouths from Wednesday night to Saturday night, except only a little cold water. * * * One Indian, and then a second, and then a third, would come and tell me, Your master will quickly knock your child on the head. This was the comfort I had from them; miserable comforters were they all. M. Rowlandson's Narrative. 12—25 Nor were such scenes of ruin confined to Massachusetts. At the south, the whole Narragansett country was deserted by the English. Warwick was burned; Providence was attacked and set on fire. There was no security but to seek out the hiding-places of the natives, and destroy them by surprise. On the banks of the Connecticut, just above the Falls that take their name from the gallant Turner, was an encampment of large bodies of hostile Indians; a band of one hundred and fifty volunteers, from among the yeomanry of Springfield, Hadley, Hatfield, and Northampton, led by Turner and Holyoke, making a silent march in the dead of night, came at day-brea
Cape Cod (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
us than the whites in their immediate neighborhood, preserved an immutable friendship with Massachusetts. See Mayhew's Indian Converts, and, at the end of it, T. Prince's Account of English ministers, &c. &c. Compare Neal's N. E.; Mather, b. VI. c. VI.; Gookin's Praying Indians, Ms. Thus churches were gathered among the heathen; villages of praying Indians established; at Cambridge an Indian actually became a bachelor of arts. 16 Yet Christianity hardly spread beyond the Indians on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket, and the seven feeble villages round Boston. The Narragansetts, a powerful tribe, counting at least a thousand warriors, Gookin says a thousand; others more hemmed in between Connecticut and Plymouth, restless and jealous, retained their old belief; and Philip of Pokanoket, at the head of seven hundred warriors, professed with pride the faith of his fathers. But Philip of Pokanoket, and the tribes that owned Chap. XII.} 1675 his influence, were now
Saint James (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
etts, instead of complying with the wishes of the king, resolved only on measures conducive to the glory of God, and to the felicity of his people; that is, to a continuance of their religious institutions, and their democratic independence. Meantime the people of Massachusetts were not 1663 ignorant how great dangers they incurred by refusing to comply with the demand of their sovereign. Chalmers, 386 False rumors were mingled with true reports, and assisted to incense the court at St. James. Whalley and Goffe, it was currently asserted, were at the head of an army; Ms. letter of Sir T. Temple. the union of the four New England colonies was believed to have had its origin in the express purpose of throwing off dependence on England. Ms. letter of commissioners to T. Prince, of Plymouth. Sir Thomas Temple, Cromwell's Governor of Acadia, had resided for years in New England, and now appeared Chap XII.} 1663 as their advocate. I assure you—such was Claredon's message to
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