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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 17 1 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 14 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 4 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Puritans, (search)
the close of King Philip's War among the New-Englanders was that of intense bitterness and savage hatred. It was Old Puritan meeting-house, Hingham, Mass. manifested in many ways; and when we consider the atrocities perpetrated by the Indians, we cannot much wonder at it. The captives who fell into the hands of the Rhode-Islanders were distributed among them as servants and slaves. A large body of Indians, assembled at Dover N. H., to treat for peace, were treacherous ly seized by Major Waldron. About 200 of them were claimed as fugitives from Massachusetts, and were sent to Boston, where some were hanged and the remainder sent to Bermuda and sold as slaves. To have been present at the Swamp fight was adjudged by the authorities of Rhode Island sufficient foundation for putting an Indian to death. Death or slavery was the penalty for all known to have shed English blood. Some fishermen at Marblehead having been killed by the Indians, some women of that town, coming out of c
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Hampshire, (search)
ept. 8, 1679 Royal commission declaring New Hampshire a royal province reaches Portsmouth......Jan. 1, 1680 President Cutts dies, and is succeeded by Maj. Richard Waldron, of Dover......April 5, 1681 Mason surrenders one-fifth of his quit rents from the province to Charles II., and thus secures the appointment of Edward Cranfield as lieutenant-governor, with extraordinary powers and devoted to his interests......Jan. 25, 1682 Cranfield suspends Waldron and Richard Martyn, both popular leaders, from the council......May 15, 1682 Edward Gove, voicing the popular feeling against Governor Cranfield, with a tumultuous body from Exeter and Hampton,ins a leave of absence, and returns to England, Walter Barefoot, his deputy, succeeding as chief magistrate......Jan. 9, 1685 Indians attack Dover; surprise Major Waldron in his own home, and massacre him and many other settlers, taking twenty-nine captives, whom they sell as slaves to the French in Canada......Jan. 27, 1689
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Waldron, Richard 1615- (search)
Waldron, Richard 1615- Military officer; born in Warwickshire, England, Sept. 2, 1615; came to Boston in 1635, and settled at Dover, N. H., in 1645. He represented that district from 1654 to 1676, and was seven years speaker. He was councillor and chief-justice, and in 1681 was president. Being chief military leader in that region, he took an active part in King Philip's War. Inviting Indians to Dover to treat with them, he seized several hundred of them, and hanged or sold into slaver or sold into slavery 200. They fearfully retaliated thirteen years afterwards. Two apparently friendly Indians obtained a night's lodging at Waldron's house at Dover. At midnight they arose, opened the door, and admitted a party of Indians lying in wait. They seized Waldron, who, though seventy-four years of age, made stout resistance. They bound him in an arm-chair at the head of a table in the hall, when they taunted him, recalled his treachery, and tortured him to death, June 28, 1689.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), William's War, King (search)
es, war between England and France soon began, and extended to their together, accompanied by a father confessor. The Indians, remembering the treachery of Major Waldron, at Dover, fearfully slaked their thirst for vengeance there. It was the first town attacked (July 7, 1689), when the venerable Major Waldron and twenty otherMajor Waldron and twenty others of the garrison were killed, and twenty-nine made captives and sold as servants to the French in Canada. Instigated by Father Thury, a Jesuit, an Indian war-party fell (Aug. 12) upon the English stockade at Pemmaquid, built by Andros, and captured the garrison. A The death of Major Waldron. respective colonies in America. WhMajor Waldron. respective colonies in America. When the declaration of war between the two nations reached America, the eastern Indians were easily excited to make war by the Baron de Castine, seated at the mouth of the Penobscot, and the Jesuit missionaries among the Indians. The recent revocation of the Edict of Nantes had kindled fiercely the fires of persecution in France (s