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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Narrative and legendary poems (search)
sied against him, and saw, as they supposed, the fulfilment of their prophecy when, many years after, he was killed by the Indians. To the constables of Dover, Hampton, Salisbury, Newbury, Rowley, Ipswich, Wenham, Lynn, Boston, Roxbury, Dedham, and until these vagabond Quakers are carried out of this jurisdiction. You, and evwill answer it at your peril; and this shall be your warrant. Richard Waldron. Dated at Dover, December 22, 1662. This warrant was executed only in Dover and Hampton. At Salisbury the constable refused to obey it. He was sustained by the town's people, who were under the influence of Major Robert Pike, the leading man in the settler shook his head,— ‘They're witches going to jail,’ he said. At last a meeting-house came in view; A blast on his horn the constable blew; And the boys of Hampton cried up and down, ‘The Quakers have come!’ to the wondering town. From barn and woodpile the goodman came; The goodwife quitted her quilting frame, With her