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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
ng on the frontier. The farmers, that had 1704. built their dwellings on the bank just above the beautiful meadows of Deerfield, had surrounded with pickets an enclosure of twenty acres—the village citadel. There were separate dwelling-houses, alHertel de Rouville, had walked on the crust all the way from Canada. On the last night in February, a pine forest near Deerfield gave them shelter till after midnight. When, at the approach of morning, the unfaithful sentinels retired, the war parse yte to the Catholic faith, and the wife of a Cahnewaga chief; and when, after long years, she visited her friends at Deerfield, she appeared in an Indian dress: and, after a short sojourn, in spite of a day of fast of Chap. XXI.} a whole villagwks and the Hurons failed; but the Charlevoix. Ms. French under Des Chaillons and Hertel de Rouville, the destroyer of Deerfield, willing to continue murdering helpless women and children, when a part, at least, of the savages were weary of it, wit
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
,—did not even attack Annapolis. In the next year, the French 1747 fleet, with troops destined for Canada and Nova Scotia, was encountered by Anson and Warren; and all its intrepidity could not save it from striking its colors. The American colonies suffered only on the frontier. Fort Massachusetts, in Williamstown, the post nearest to Crown Point, having but twenty-two men for its garrison, capitulated to a large body of French and In- 1746 Aug. 20. dians. In the wars of Queen Anne, Deerfield and Haverhill were the scenes of massacre. It marks the progress of settlements, that danger was now repelled Chap. XXIV.} 1746. 1747, April. from Concord, on the Merrimac, and from the township now called Charlestown, on the Connecticut. Repairing to Louisburg, Shirley, with Warren, had concerted a project for reducing all Canada; and the duke of Newcastle replied to their proposals by direct- 1746 ing preparations for the conquest. The colonies north of Virginia voted to raise more
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., D. (search)
D. Dablon, Father, III. 143, 152 Dahcotas, III. 243. Dale, Sir Thomas, I. 142. Danforth in Maine, II. 114. Daniel, Robert, III. 21. Daniel, Father, III. 122. Martyrdom, 138 Dare, Virginia, I. 105. Davenport, John, establishes New Haven colony, I. 403. Deerfield burned, III 212. De La Ware, I. 137. In Virginia, 140. Illness, 142. In parliament, 149. Death, 152. Delaware colonized by the Dutch, II. 281. By the Swedes, 287. Separated from Pennsylvania, III. 44. See New Sweden, and Pennsylvania. Detroit founded, III. 194. Attacked by the Foxes, 224. Dixwell, John, II. 35. Drake, Sir Francis, I. 86. Dreuillettes, Father, II. 135. Drummond, William, II. 135. Advises to depose Berkeley, 224. Fires his own house, 226. His execution, 231. Drummond, Sarah, II. 226. Dudley, Joseph, II. 427; II. 54, 99. Dustin, Hannah, III. 188. Dutch West India Company, II. 260. Dutch Colonies. See New Netherlands. Dyar, Mary, I