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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
had come to treat of peace, they ought to have gone in peace. T. M.'s Account, p. 12. The monopoly of the beaver trade in Virginia Hening, ii. 20, 124, 140. is also said to have prevailed on the avarice of the governor to favor the Indians. T. M.'s Account, p. 11. Passion and avarice, to which the governor was more than a little addicted. Meantime the natives, having escaped from their fort, 1675 to 1676. roamed by stealth from plantation to plantation, from the vicinity of Mount Vernon to the Falls of James River, carrying terror to every grange in the province; murdering, in blind fury, till their passions were glutted; and for each one of their chiefs ten of the English had been slain. Now, according to their wild superstitions, would the souls of their great men repose pleasantly in the shades of death. Proposals of peace were renewed by the Susquehannahs and their confederates. The proposals were rejected. The Indians, subject to Virginia, begin to assert inde