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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Frost, Charles 1632- (search)
Frost, Charles 1632- Pioneer; born in Tiverton, England, in 1632; came with his father to America, who settled on the Piscataqua River in 1636. Frost was a member of the general court from 1658 to 1659, and a councillor from 1693 to 1697: He was accused by the Indians of having seized some of their race for the purpose of enslavement and was killed in 1697.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Government, instrument of. (search)
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
pt with his fathers; and his son, Philip of Pokanoket, had succeeded him as chief over allied tribes. Repeated sales of land had narrowed their domains; and the English had artfully crowded them into the tongues of land, as most suitable and convenient for them. Winslow avows the policy. There they could be more easily watched; for the frontiers of the narrow peninsulas were inconsiderable. Thus the two chief seats of the Pokanokets were the necks of land, which we now call Bristol and Tiverton. As population pressed upon otter savages, the west was open; but as the English villages drew nearer and nearer to them, their huntinggrounds were put under culture; and as the ever-urgent importunity of the English was quieted but for a season by partial concessions from the unwary Indians, their natural parks were turned into pastures; their best fields for planting corn were gradually alienated; their fisheries were impaired by more skilful methods; and, as wave after wave succeeded, t