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Alexander,
An American Indian king.
Massasoit (q. v.) died in 1660. Three or four years before his death he took his two sons, Wamsutta and Metacomet, to Plymouth, Mass., and asked that both should receive English names.
The oldest was named Alexander.
and the second Philip.
Alexander succeeded his father as chief sachem of the Wampanoags.
In 1661 he was compelled to go to Plymouth a prisoner, on suspicion of being league with the Narragansets in hostile designs against the English.
The suspicion was not sustained by evidence.
On his way to Plymouth the chief was taken suddenly ill, and in a few hours died, it was said of a fever brought on by rage and mortification.
His young wife, who became the squaw sachem Witamo, believed he had been poisoned by the English.
This event soured the minds of Philip and his followers towards the English, and was one of the indirect causes which led to King Philip's War. See King Philip.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Berkeley , Sir John , 1607 - (search)
Berkeley, Sir John, 1607-
A proprietor of New Jersey; born in 1607; was in the military service of Charles I. when the King knighted him at Berwick on the Tweed.
In the civil war that afterwards ensued, he bore a conspicuous part, and he remained in exile with the royal family many years.
In 1653 Berkeley was placed at the head of the Duke of York's establishment; and two years before the Restoration (1660), of that of the Prince of Wales, who, when crowned king (Charles II.), raised Berkeley to the peerage as Baron Berkeley of Stratton, in the county of Somerset.
On the Restoration he became one of the privy council, and late in 1699 he was appointed lord-lieutenant of Ireland.
He was then one of the proprietors of New Jersey, and was not above suspicion of engaging in the corrupt practice of selling offices.
Samuel Pepys, who was secretary of the Admiralty (1664), speaks of him in his Diary as the most hot, fiery man in his discourse, without any cause, he ever saw. Lord Be
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Berkeley , Sir William , (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Claiborne , or Clayborne , William 1589 - (search)
Dustin, Hannah,
Heroine; born about 1660; married Thomas Dustin, of Haverhill, Mass., Dec. 3, 1677.
When, in the spring of 1697, the French and Indians devastated the New England frontier settlements, Haverhill, within 30 miles of Boston, suffered severely, forty of its inhabitants being killed or carried into captivity.
Among the latter were a part of the family of Thomas Dustin, who was in the field when the savages first appeared.
Mounting his horse, he hastened to his house to bear away his wife, eight children, and nurse to a place of safety.
His youngest child was only a week old. He ordered his other children to fly. While he was lifting his wife and her babe from the bed the Indians attacked his house.
Leave me, cried the mother, and fly to the protection of the other children.
Remounting his horse he soon overtook the precious flock, and placing himself between them and the pursuing Indians, he defended them so valiantly with his gun that he pressed back the foe. Me
Dyer, Mary,
Quaker martyr; was the wife of a leading citizen of Rhode Island.
Having embraced the doctrines and discipline of the Friends, or Quakers, she became an enthusiast, and went to Boston, whence some of her sect had been banished, to give her testimony to the truth.
In that colony the death penalty menaced those who should return after banishment.
Mary was sent away and returned, and was released while going to the gallows with Marmaduke Stevenson with a rope around her neck.
She unwillingly returned to her family in Rhode Island; but she went back to Boston again for the purpose of offering up her life to the cause she advocated, and she was hanged in 1660.
Mary had once been whipped on her bare back through the streets of Boston, tied behind a cart.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Eliot , John , 1754 -1690 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Everett , Edward , 1794 -1865 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Garfield , James Abram 1831 -1881 (search)