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ROBINSON, Miss MARY, Worcester.-Fourteen numbers of magazines; and the "American Missionary," in continuation. ROE, Mr. ALFRED S., Worcester.-His "American Authors and their Birthdays"; a reprint of the first edition of the " Methodist Discipline"; five volumes of the "Methodist Quarterly Review;" one book; fifty-one pamphlets; and two of his photographs. RUSSELL, Mr. E. HARLOW, Worcester.-Catalogue and circular of the Massachusetts State Normal School at Worcester. SANDERS, Mrs. MINERVA A., Pawtucket, R. I.-Her report for 1886 as Librarian of the Pawtucket Free Public Library. SARGENT, Mr. CHARLES F., Worcester.-The " Helping Hand," as issued. SHAW, Mr. JOSEPH A., Worcester.-Fourteen pamphlets. SMITH, Mr. HENRY M., Worcester.-The "Worcester Home Journal," as issued. SMITH, Mr. JOHN G., Worcester.--Six Isaiah Thomas almanacs; and one pamphlet. STAPLES, Mr. SAMUEL E., Worcester.-The "Dedham Sentinel" for 1887. UPHAM, Mr. FRANK K., U. S. 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YALE UNIVERSITY.-The Obituary Record of Graduates, 1886-87. KING PHILIP'S WAR; WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE ATTACK ON BROOKFIELD IN AUGUST, 1675. BY GRINDALL REYNOLDS. THIS paper does not propose to give an account of King Philip's War, as a whole. To do that with any thoroughness would require a volume. It would rather confine itself to a statement of the reasons why the war happened to take place, and to a somewhat full sketch of a single event of that war. The subject has for me what I may call a traditional attraction. My ancestor, Captain Nathaniel Reynolds, was one of the original settlers, who after the war took possession of Mount Hope, the home of the Wampanoags, and named it Bristol. My great-grandfather, Benjamin Reynolds, was the first boy christened in the new town; while my grandfather, John Reynolds, and my father, Grindall Reynolds, first saw the light and were reared to manhood amid the associations of the ancient hamlet. No historian, as it seems to me, has pointed out with sufficient clearness the causes which made this war, not only probable, but inevitable. A little sketch of the First Church, Bristol, R. I., appeared in 1872. In that sketch you find this statement. It refers to the grant of the township in 1681. "The whole of Plymouth County was then settled, except this territory, which was the only spot left uncovered in the western march of English population.” This is literally true. When the Mayflower dropped anchor off Plymouth the Wampanoags held the whole region as 1 Historical Sketch of the First Church, Bristol, R. I., by J. P. Lane, p. 8. |