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Frost's pictorial history of Indian wars and captivities
Frost's pictorial history of Indian wars and captivities Author:John Frost Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: UTTLntlST OT DOSTO.f. CHAPTER III. EARLY INDIAN WAR8 IN NEW ENGLAND. The history of the settlers of Now England is fraught with the troubles of Ind... more »ian hostilities. In 1620, a company belonging to Mr. Robinson's church, at Leydcn, in Holland, foreseeing many inconveniences likely to increase, from the residence of English dissenters under a foreign government, and hoping to find an asylum, and a refuge from persecution in the New World, applied to King James for liberty to place themselves in some part of New England; and obtained a grant of some place about Hudson river. They set sail from Plymouth, in September, and after a boisterous passage found themselves in Massachusetts Bay, considerably to the north of their destination. But the approach of winter, and other causes, forced them to land at the nearest convenient spot, and on tho 22d of December, 1620, they disembarked upon the spot afterwards called Plymouth. The settlers numbered one hundred and one persons. After this beginning, other settlements were established at favorable pomts on the coast. Ill The principal tribes in the neighborhood of the settlers, were the Pequods, the Mohicans, the Narragansetts, and the Warn- panoags. Some of these Indians displayed their hostility soon after the settlement was begun at Plymouth; but the majority of them seemed disposed to friendship. On the 16th of March, 1621, the whites were surprised by an Indian coming boldly alone into Plymouth, and crying out, "Welcome, Englishmen! welcome, Englishmen!" He was the sagamore of a neighboring tribe, and named Samoset. He had learned to speak broken English from the fishermen, who came to the coast. Through his influence, a treaty was concluded with Massasoit, the greatest king of the surrounding country, and it was obse...« less