A Popular History of the United States of America

The Pilgrims are saved by the coming of spring.-Health is restored.-Miles Stan-
dish is sent out to reconnoitre.-Samoset and Squanto come to Plymouth.-A treaty is
made with Massasoit.-Other tribes acknowledge the sovereignty of England.-Canon-
icus is overawed.-An unfruitful summer.-Immigrants arive.-Are quartered on the
colony. The Pilgrims are destitute.-The new-comers found Weymouth.-The Indi-

ans plan a massacre.-And are punished by Standish.-Weymouth is abandoned.-A

plentiful harvest.—Robinson remains at Leyden.-The colonial enterprise proves un.

profitable. The managers sell out to the colonists.-The Established Church is fa-

vored.-Salem is founded.-The Company of Massachusetts Bay is chartered by the

king and the council.-Boston is founded. The government is transferred to America.

-A large immigration in 1630.-Winthrop is governor.-Cambridge is founded.—

Watertown.-Roxbury.-Dorchester.-The colony suffers greatly.-Suffrage is restricted.

-Williams protests.—And is banished.-Goes among the Indians.-Is kindly received.

-Tarries at Seekonk.-Removes.-And founds Providence.-A representative govern.

ment is established.-The ballot-box is introduced.-Three thousand immigrants ar-

rive.-Vane and Peters are the leaders.-Concord is founded.-Colonies remove to the

Connecticut.-Religious controversies.-Mrs. Hutchinson is banished.-She and her

friends establish a republic on Rhode Island.-Harvard College is founded at Cam-

bridge. A printing-press is set up.-Eliot, Welde, and Mather translate the Psalms.-

Liberty flourishes in Massachusetts.-Emigration is hindered by England.

CHAPTER XIV.

MASSACHUSETTS. THE UNION.

123-133.

Progress of New England.-Circumstances favor a union of the colonies.-Massa-

chusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Haven are confederated.-No other colonies

are admitted.-A Body of Liberties is formed.-The two legislative branches are sepa-

rated. The English Revolution is favorable to New England.-Vane and others de-

fend the rights of the colonies.-The Parliament demands the charter of Massachusetts.

-Which is refused.-Cromwell the friend of Massachusetts.-Maine is annexed.—

Early settlements in Maine.—The Quakers arrive at Boston.-Are persecuted and ban-

ished. The death penalty is passed against them.-Four persons are executed.-Reac-

tion against the law. And the law is abolished.-News of the Restoration reaches

Boston.-Whalley and Goffe arrive. And escape to Connecticut.-Vane and Peters are

executed. The Navigation Act is passed.-Its bearing on the commerce of New Eng-

land.-War between England and Holland.-Charles II. attempts to subvert the colo-

nial charters.-Commissioners are sent to Massachusetts.-Are met with resistance.-

And defeated in their objects.-The colony prospers.
133-139.

CHAPTER XV.

MASSACHUSETTS.-KING PHILIP'S WAR.

Philip becomes king of the Wampanoags.-Causes of jealousy and war.—Alexan-
der's imprisonment.-Outrages are committed. The war begins.-Swanzey is attacked.
-Philip is pursued to Mount Hope.-Escapes to Tiverton.-Is driven from the Narra-
gansett country.-Goes to the Nipmucks.-A general war ensues.-The Narragansetts
are obliged to remain neutral.-English ambassadors are massacred at Brookfield.-The
town is attacked.-Rescued.-Abandoned.-Burned.-Deerfield is partly destroyed.—
Lathrop attempts to bring off the harvests.-Is ambushed at Bloody Brook.-The battle.
-Hadley is attacked.—Rescued by Goffe.-Springfield is assaulted.—And destroyed.
-Hadley is burned.-The savages are defeated at Hatfield.-Philip repairs to the Nar-
ragansetts.-The English declare war.—And invade the country.-Philip and his forces
take refuge in a swamp.-Are surrounded.—Attacked.—And utterly routed.—Ruin of
the Narragansett nation.-The war continues on the frontiers.-Towns and villages are
destroyed. The savages grow feeble.-Canonchet is taken.—And put to death.-Philip's
family are captured.—And sold as slaves.-Himself hunted down.-And shot.-Sub-

mission of the tribes.-Losses of New England.—The English government refuses help.

-Randolph comes to abridge the liberties of Massachusetts.-And is defeated.-Mas-

sachusetts purchases Maine of the heirs of Gorges.-Difficulties concerning New Hamp-

shire. A royal government is established in the province.-Cranfield's administration.

-The king's hostility.-The charter of Massachusetts is annulled.-King Charles dies.

-James II. appoints Dudley governor.—And then Andros.--The liberties of the peo-

ple are destroyed.-The government of Andros is extended over New England.—But

the charter of Connecticut is saved.-The Revolution of 1688.-Andros is seized, and

imprisoned. And the colonies restore their liberties.
139-147.

CHAPTER XVI.

MASSACHUSETTS.-WAR AND WITCHCRAFT.

King William's War begins.-The causes.-Dover is attacked and burned.-Pema-

quid is destroyed.—And then Schenectady.-And Salmon Falls.—An expedition is

planned against Canada.-Phipps takes Port Royal.-But fails at Quebec.-And re-

turns.-Paper money is issued.-Failure of the expedition against Montreal.-Phipps

goes to England.—And returns as royal governor.-Oyster River is destroyed.-Haver-

hill is attacked and burned.—Mrs. Dustin's captivity.-The treaty of Ryswick.-The

witchcraft excitement begins at Salem.-The causes.-Parris and Mather.-The trials.

-Convictions.-Executions.-The reaction.-Mather's book.-Reflections. 147-153.

CHAPTER XVII.

MASSACHUSETTS.-WARS OF ANNE AND GEORGE.

Causes of Queen Anne's War.-Field of operations in America.-A treaty is made

with the Five Nations.-The conflict begins.-Deerfield is burned.-And the inhab-

itants carried captive to Canada.—Barbarities of the Indians.—An expedition is sent

against Port Royal.-The attempt fails.-Is renewed in 1710.-Port Royal is taken.—

And named Annapolis.-Preparations are made for invading Canada.-Nicholson com-

mands the land forces.-And Walker the fleet.-The squadron is delayed.-Stops at

Gaspé Bay. Is shattered by a storm in the St. Lawrence.-Returns in disgrace.—The

expedition by land is abandoned.-A treaty is made at Utrecht.-A separate peace is

concluded with the Indians.-The people of Massachusetts resist the royal governor.

-Causes of King George's War.-The conflict begins.—Importance of Louisburg.-Its

conquest is planned by Shirley.-The colonies contribute men and means.-The expe-

dition leaves Boston.-Is detained at Canseau.-Joined by Warren's fleet.-Reaches

Gabarus Bay. Invests Louisburg.-The siege.-The surrender.-Cape Breton submits.

-France attempts to reconquer Louisburg.-Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.-Character of

the Puritans.
153-160.

CHAPTER XVIII.

NEW YORK.-SETTLEMENT.

Character of Sir Henry Hudson.-The East India Company govern Manhattan.—A
colony is sent from Holland.-A charter is granted to the West India Company.—The
Walloons arrive at New Amsterdam.-May builds Fort Nassau.-And Joris, Fort
Orange.-Civil government begins in New Netherland.-May is governor.-And then
Verhulst.—And Minuit.-Manhattan is purchased. And fortified.-Friendly relations
are established between the Walloons and the Puritans.-The Dutch devote themselves
to the fur-trade.-Growth of the colony.-A charter is granted.-The patroons.-Five
manors are laid out.-Delaware is colonized.-And then abandoned.-Van Twiller suc-

ceeds Minuit.-A fort is built at Hartford.-The English claim the Connecticut.-Swe-

den purposes to plant an American colony.-The project is delayed.-But renewed by

Minuit. A Swedish colony reaches the Delaware.-Settles at Christiana.-Is prosper-

ous. And New Netherland is jealous.-Fort Nassau is rebuilt.-Printz removes to Tin-

icum.-The Indians are provoked by the Dutch.-War breaks out.-A desultory contest.

-The Mohawks come.-Kieft massacres the Algonquins.-The war continues.-Fate of

Mrs. Hutchinson.--Underhill conquers the Indians.-Kieft the author of the war.-

De Vries succeeds him.
160-167.

CHAPTER XIX.

NEW YORK.-ADMINISTRATION OF STUYVESANT.

Stuyvesant is appointed governor.-Peace established with the Indians.-Free trade

succeeds monopoly.-Growth of the colony.-A boundary is established between New