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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
fight occurred Sunday......Dec. 19, 1675 Indians attack Lancaster, and after killing all the men carry the women and children into captivity......Feb. 5, 1676 Six hundred additional troops ordered to be levied......Feb. 8, 1676 Medfield surprised and laid in ashes......Feb. 21, 1676 Weymouth, within 18 miles of Boston, attacked and seven buildings burned......Feb. 24 1676 Groton attacked......March 3, 9, 13, 1676 Town of Plymouth assaulted and twelve persons killed......March, 1676 Warwick burned and Providence partially destroyed......March 17, 1676 [The aged Roger Williams accepts a commission as captain for the defence of the town he had founded.] Captain Pierce, of Scituate, with about fifty men and twenty Indians, routed near Seekonk; his entire party cut off......March 26. 1676 Marlborough attacked and partially burned......March 26, 1676 Seekonk laid in ashes......March 28, 1676 Canonchet, sachem of the Narragansets, captured......April 9,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Virginia, (search)
s are attacked in their fort, near the present site of Washington, by 1,000 men from Virginia and Maryland, under Col. John Washington, great-grandfather of George Washington......1675 Six Indian chiefs, sent out of the fort for a parley, are killed......1675 Indians escape from the fort and spread dismay and havoc upon the plantations along the James and Rappahannock......1675 Assembly meets and declares war against them. Five hundred men gathered under Sir Henry Chicheley......March, 1676 When about to march, Governor Berkeley orders the force disbanded......1676 Alarmed colonists choose Nathaniel Bacon (born in Suffolk, England) as their leader; he, failing to procure a commission from the governor, marches against the Indians without one and defeats them......May, 1676 Governor Berkeley proclaims Bacon a rebel......May 29, 1676 Bacon elected a member of the new Assem bly......1676 He is captured on his way to Jamestown, tried before the governor and counci