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Accomack (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
n of New England, in 1675, to have been fifty-five thousand souls. Of these, Plymouth may have contained not Chap XII.} 1675 many less than seven thousand; Connectew Hampshire may have hardly contained three thousand; and Massachusetts, with Plymouth, never from the first peopled by many Indians, seems to have had less than eigiors, Gookin says a thousand; others more hemmed in between Connecticut and Plymouth, restless and jealous, retained their old belief; and Philip of Pokanoket, at hbors, losing fields and hunting-grounds, and frequently summoned to Boston or Plymouth, to reply to an accusation, or to explain their purposes, they sighed for the ted their wonted energy. Volunteers from Massachusetts joined the troops from Plymouth; and within a week from the commencement of hostilities, the insulated Pokanokt over a contribution, small, it is true, to relieve in part the distresses of Plymouth colony. Connecticut, which had contributed soldiers to the war, now furnished
Nova Scotia (Canada) (search for this): chapter 2
mple. 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 Massachusetts—of my true love and friendship to your country; neither in your privileges, charter, governmenas she discovered a vessel from Piscataqua, that had just sought an anchoring-place in the harbor! Hubbard's Indian Wars, 234. Willis's Portland, i. 143, 147, 155. Compare Church, 166. Ms. Letters from Willis and Farmer. The surrender of Acadia to the French had made the struggle more arduous; for the Eastern Indians obtained supplies of arms from the French on the Chap XII.} 1677 Penobscot. To defeat the savage enemy effectually, the Mohawks were invited to engage in the war; a few
Narragansett (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
e of death, in my lap. Not the least crumb of refreshing came within either 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
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
Records, and from the Ms. State Papers of Massachusetts, have been most liberally furnished me by n of chartered rights. The inhabitants of Massachusetts had already adopted views which are now a English ministry dared not interfere with Massachusetts; it was right that the stern virtues of thamong the Nipmucks, the interior tribes of Massachusetts. The little army of the colonists then ents intention to reassume the government of Massachusetts into its own hands; Burk's Virginia, II most dangerous frontier to defend. But Massachusetts did not, at this time, come into possessiouncil were appointed by the magistrates of Massachusetts; at the same time, a popular legislative b 557, &c. Hutch. Coll. Mass. Records, IV. Massachusetts was compelled to employ force to assert itessed their content with the government of Massachusetts. But the popular wish availed little in4 lished; New Hampshire was separated from Massachusetts, and organized as a royal province. It wa[71 more...]
Clarendon, Ark. (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
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 Chapnes had not only gained the confidence of the king's mistresses, but places in the royal cabinet. While Charles II. was dallying with women, and robbing the theatre of actresses—while the licentious Buckingham, who had succeeded in displacing Clarendon, wasted the vigor of his mind and body by indulging in every sensual pleasure which nature could desire or wit invent—while Louis XIV. was gaining influence in the English cabinet, by bribing the mistress of the chief of the king's cabal—Engla<
Springfield (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
far more numerous savages. Hardly a white man escaped; the little stream that winds through the tranquil scene, by its name of blood, commemorates the massacre of that day. See the names in note to E. Everett's Address at Bloody Brook, 37 Springfield was burned, and Hadley once more assaulted. The re- Oct. moter villages were deserted; the pleasant residences, that had been won by hard toil in the desert, the stations of civilization in the wilderness, were laid waste. But the Englishthem 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 ri
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ime the Indian warriors were not idle. We will fight, said they, these twenty years; you have houses, barns, and corn; we have now nothing to lose; and one town in Massachusetts after another— Lancaster, Medfield, Weymouth, Groton, Marlborough —were laid in ashes. No where was there more distress than at Lancaster. Forty-two persons sought shelter under the roof of Mary Rowlandson; and, after a hot assault, the Indians succeeded in setting the house on fire. Will the mothers of the United States, happy in the midst of unexampled prosperity, know the sorrows of woman in a former generation? Quickly, writes Mary Rowlandson, it was the dolefulest day that ever mine eyes saw. Now the dreadful hour is come. Some in our house were fighting for their lives; others wallowing in blood; the house on fire over our heads, and the bloody heathen ready to knock us on the head, if we stirred out. I took my children to go forth; but the Indians shot so thick, that the bullets rattled against
New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
y endeavored to inquire into the bounds of New Hampshire and Maine, and to prepare for the restorat more than twenty-two thousand; and Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, each perhaps four thous thousand dwelt in the territory of Maine; New Hampshire may have hardly contained three thousand; s the right of jurisdiction over Maine and New Hampshire. The decision was so manifestly in confors, i. 302. The change of government in New Hampshire was Chap XII.} 1675 less quietly effected that he had no right to jurisdiction over New Hampshire; the unappro- 1677 priated lands were allmbly and approved by the people. Thus did New Hampshire seize the earliest moment of its separate means of defence. The representatives of New Hampshire would not be hastened; they took time to ct some visible force to keep the people of New Hampshire under, it would be a difficult or impossibtion of the colonists. The character of New Hampshire, as displayed in this struggle for freedom[3 more...]
Massachusetts Bay (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
were insulated settlements near the ocean, on rivers, which were employed to drive the sawmills, then described as a late invention; and cultivation had not extended far into the interior. Haverhill, on the Merrimack, was a frontier town; from Connecticut, emigrants had ascended as far as the rich meadows of Deerfield and Northfield; but to the west, Berkshire was a wilderness; Westfield was the remotest plantation. Between the towns on Connecticut River and the cluster of towns near Massachusetts Bay, Lancaster and Brookfield were the solitary abodes of Christians in the desert. The government of Massachusetts extended to the Kennebeck, and included more than half the population of New England; the confederacy of the colonies had also Hazard II. 511 been renewed, in anticipation of dangers. The number of the Indians of that day hardly amounted to thirty thousand in all New England west of the St. Croix. Of these, perhaps about five thousand dwelt in the territory of Maine; Ne
Gallatin, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
chusetts, with Plymouth, never from the first peopled by many Indians, seems to have had less than eight thousand. In Connecticut and Rhode Island, never depopulated by wasting sickness, the Mohegans, the Chap. XII.} 1675. Narragansetts, the Pokanokets, and kindred tribes, had multiplied their villages round the sea-shore, the inlets, and the larger ponds, which increased their scanty supplies by furnishing abundance of fish. Yet, Winthrop, i. 105 Trumbull, i. 40. Williamson, i. 483. Gallatin, 36, 37. Gookin and Holmes, in Mass. Hist. Coll. i. and IX. Answer of General Assembly in 1680, in Chalmers, 308 of these, the exaggerated estimates melt away, when subjected to criticism. To Connecticut, rumor, in the days of the elder Winthrop, gave three or four thousand warrior Indians; and there may have been half of the larger number: the Narragansetts, like so many other tribes, boasted of their former grandeur, but they could not bring into action a thousand bowmen. Thus, there
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