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SCRIBNER'S
POPULAR HISTORY OF
THE UNITED STATES
FROM THE EARLIEST DISCOVERIES OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE BY THE NORTHMEN TO THE PRESENT TIME
BY
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
SIDNEY HOWARD GAY
NOAH BROOKS
WITH MORE THAN SIXTEEN HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
VOLUME II
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1896
COPYRIGHT, 1876, BY
SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG & CO.
COPYRIGHT, 1881, 1896, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
RIGHT OF TRANSLATION RESERVED
Press of J. J. Little & Co. Astor Place, New York
74078
CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I.
THE PEQUOT WAR.
HOSTILITIES BEFORE THE WAR.-ENDICOTT'S EXPEDITION TO BLOCK ISLAND. ·
ITS SUCCESS. INDIANS OF THE MAIN LAND ATTACKED. — - RETALIATION ON
THE ENGLISH PLANTATIONS.- A GENERAL WAR RESOLVED ON.- MASON'S
EXPEDITION.-REDUCTION OF THE PEQUOT FORT. RESULTS OF THE SUM-
MER'S WORK. — EXTINCTION OF THE PEQUOT TRIBE. — CHARACTER OF
INDIANS. RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL QUALITIES. -
INFLUENCE OF THE PEQUOT WAR UPON THE GROWTH AND PROSPERITY OF
THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES.
THE
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CHAPTER II.
SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND.
THE TOWNS OF THE CONNECTICUT RIVER. PREPARATORY GOVERNMENT. -
THE FIRST CONSTITUTION AND THE EARLIEST GOVERNORS. - CIVIL AND
SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE FIRST SETTLERS. NECESSITY OF STRINGENT
RULE.CHARACTER OF EARLY LEGISLATION. ANOTHER EMIGRATION FROM
BOSTON. NEW HAVEN AND ITS CHURCH OF SEVEN PILLARS. ESTABLISH-
MENT OF OTHER TOWNS AND CHURCHES. - DUTCH AND ENGLISH Boundaries.
- DIFFERENCE OF PURPOSE IN THE TWO CLASSES OF SETTLERS. ENGLISH
DIPLOMACY AT HOME. - ENGLISH INTRUSION UPON LONG ISLAND. CHAR-
ACTER OF THe People of CONNECTICUT. SETTLEMENT OF RHODE ISLAND. -
ROGER WILLIAMS'S COLONY AND ITS GOVERNMENT. — HEATED CONTROVERSY IN
- SEVERITY OF THE RULING PARTY. - TREATMENT OF THE
MASSACHUSETTS.
ANTINOMIANS.
- SETTLEMENT OF RHODE ISLAND AT ACQUIDNECK (PORTS-
MOUTH). CODDINGTON CHOSEN CHIEF JUDge. - DISCORDS IN THE NEW
COLONY.
SETTS TO ACQUIDNECK.-CODDINGTON'S PROPOSED ALLIANCE OF THE COL-
ONIES. - THE NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERACY. AGAMENTICUS AND ACQUID-
NECK EXCLUDED.
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CHAPTER III.
THE BOSTON PURITANS.
ROGER WILLIAMS AND LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE.. BOSTON PURITANISM. ITS
BIGOTRY. THE BELIEF IN A SPECIAL DIVINE PROTECTION. SPECIAL PROV-
IDENCES. PURITAN INTERPRETATION OF DISASTERS AND MISFORTUNES.
POPULAR APPREHENSION OF LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE. EARLY LAWS OF THE
PURITANS.- REGULATION OF DRESS AND CUSTOMS. PATERNAL CHARACTER
OF THE GOVERNMENT. - RELATIONS OF THE SEXES.-LAWS AGAINST LYING
AND BLASPHEMY.- PUNISHMENTS. PURITAN SPIRIT AND ITS RESULTS IN
PRACTICE. SAMUEL GORTON.- HIS ACTION AT BOSTON AND AT PLYMOUTH,
AND HIS BANISHMENT. - GORTON AND HIS COMPANIONS AT ACQUIDNECK AND
PAWTUXET. THE ATTEMPT TO SEIZE WESTON'S CATTLE. - INTERFERENCE
OF MASSACHUSETTS. ARBITRARY COURSE OF THE BOSTON MAGISTRATES.
GORTON AT SHAWOMET. HIS LETTER.
CHAPTER IV.
THE SHAWOMET PEOPLE AND THEIR INDIAN FRIENDS.
PURCHASE OF LANDS AT SHAWOMET. PROTEST OF TWO INDIAN CHIEFS, PUM-
HAM AND SACONONOCO. SHAWOMET PEOPLE SUMMONED TO BOSTON. -COM-
MISSIONERS APPOINTED TO VISIT THEM. THREATS AND PREPARATIONS FOR
RESISTANCE. -FLIGHT OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. THE MEN BESIEGED.-
NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE. A HOLLOW TRUCE. THE MEN TAKEN PRISON-
ERS AND CARRIED TO BOSTON. THEIR TRIAL AND PUNISHMENT. THEIR
RELEASE AND RETURN TO RHODE ISLAND. APPREHENDED TROUBLE WITH
THE INDIANS. CHARGES AGAINST MIANTONOMO. FEUD BETWEEN THE
MOHICANS AND NARRAGANSETTS.—UNCAS BEFRIENDED BY THE COMMISSION-
ERS OF THE UNITED COLONIES. - CAPTURE OF MIANTONOMO BY UNCAS.
HIS ASSASSINATION BY DIRECTION OF THE ENGLISH..
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77
THE SHAWOMET CONTROVERSY TAKEN TO ENGLAND. DECIDED IN FAVOR of
GORTON AND HIS ASSOCIATES. CHARTER GRANTED TO PROVIDENCE PLANTA-
TIONS. - CIVIL LIBERTY AND RELIGIOUS
OF CLARK, HOLMES, AND CRANDALL TO
AND PREACHING HETERODOX OPINIONS.
CODDINGTON APPOINTED GOVERNOR FOR
CHARLES II.-ITS CHARACTER AND HISTORICAL INTEREST.
TOLERATION PROVIDED for. — - VISIT
BOSTON. - PUNISHED FOR HOLDING
DISSENSIONS IN RHODE ISLAND. —
LIFE. THE CHARTER GRANTED BY
. 97
HOPEFUL RECEPTION BY THE CITI-
ZENS. HE BEFRIENDS EX-GOVERNOR KIEFT. —ARREST AND TRIAL OF KUYTER
AND MELYN.-THEIR BANISHMENT AND DEPARTURE WITH KIEFT.- WRECK
OF THE PRINCESS.
DIFFICULTIES WITH NEW ENGLAND. -
SEIZURE OF THE
ST. BENINIO.- THE CONSEQUENT QUARREL WITH NEW HAVEN.-CONTROVERSY
WITH THE COMMISSARY OF RENNSELAERSWYCK.-DISCONTENT OF THE PEOPLE.
— APPEAL OF THE CITIZENS TO HOLLAND. MELYN'S RETURN. - REVERSAL OF
HIS SENTENCE. THE REMONSTRANCE FORWARDED TO THE STATES-GENERAL.
VAN DER DONCK AND THE DELEGATES AT THE HAGUE. STUYVESANT'S CON-
TINUED ARROGANCE
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CHAPTER VII.
THE DUTCH AND THEIR NEIGHBORS.
THE HARTFORD BOUNDARY TREATY OF 1650. ACTION OF THE STATES-GENERAL
ON THE NEW NETHERLAND REMONSTRANCE. - NEW ENGLAND TROUBLES.
STUYVESANT ACCUSED OF CONSPIRING WITH THE INDIANS AGAINST THE ENG-
LISH. JOHN UNDERHILL IN THE FIELD. - POPULAR DISCONTENTS AT NEW
AMSTERDAM AND ON LONG ISLAND. CONVENTION OF THE TOWNS. A RE-
NEWED APPEAL TO HOLLAND. ENGLISH FEELING ON LONG ISLAND. — HOSTILE
PREPARATIONS IN CONNECTICUT. - NEW ENGLAND ASKS AID FROM THE PRO-
TECTOR AGAINST THE DUTCH. — AN APPROACHING CONFLICT PREVENTED BY THE
TREATY OF PEACE IN EUROPE. UNFAVORABLE REPLY TO THE CONVENTION'S
APPEAL.-NEW SWEDEN ON THE DELAWARE. - CONTESTS BETWEEN THE DUTCH
AND THE SWEDES. STUYVESANT VISITS THE SOUTH RIVER. FORT NASSAU
ABANDONED AND FORT CASIMIR BUILT BY THE DUTCH. GOVERNOR PRINTZ
RETIRES. FORT CASIMIR TAKEN BY THE SWEDES.RETAKEN BY THE DUTCH.
-DIVISION OF THE COLONY BETWEEN THE W. I. COMPANY AND THE CITY OF
AMSTERDAM.-LIMITS OF NEW AMSTEL.-DISASTERS AND DISSENSIONS . . . 137
GEORGE FOX.- HIS LIFE,
BELIEFS OF THE FRIENDS. THEIR MANNER
OF LIFE AND SPEECH. THE FRIENDS AND THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH..
ORIGIN OF NAME "QUAKERS."-ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST FRIENDS AT BOSTON. —
ACTION OF THE BOSTON MAGISTRATES. THE PERSECUTION OF THE QUAKERS
BEGUN. - ACCESSIONS TO THEIR NUMBER. THE FIRST GENERAL LAWS AGAINST
REFUSAL OF RHODE ISLAND TO JOIN IN THIS LEGISLATION. - MARY
DYER. BANISHED FRIENDS RETURN TO BOSTON.-INCREASED STRINGENCY OF
THE LAWS. PROCEEDINGS AT NEW HAVEN AND ELSEWHERE. - THE DEATH
PENALTY IN MASSACHUSETTS. CASES OF PERSECUTION. MARY DYER AND
HER COMPANIONS AT BOSTON. THEIR TRIAL AND PUNISHMENT. OTHER
TRIALS. INTERFERENCE OF THE KING. - End of the PERSECUTIONS
. . 165
RETURN OF SIR JOHN HARVEY TO VIRGINIA. HIS NEW ADMINISTRATION.
SUCCEEDED BY WYAT. SIR WILLIAM BERKELEY APPOINTED GOVERNOR.
THE PURITANS AND ROYALISTS OF VIRGINIA. - LAWS AGAINST THE FORMER.