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Книга по требованию: Records of the Proprietors of Narraganset Township, No; 1, Now the Town of Buxton, York County, Maine, From August 1st, 1733, to January 4th, 1811

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With a Documentary Introduction (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Records of the Proprietors of Narraganset Township, No; 1, Now the Town of Buxton, York County, Maine, From August 1st, 1733, to January 4th, 1811: With a Documentary Introduction

This volume is the fruit of unwearied research extending through many years, prosecuted under the conviction that the materials embraced, constituting the sequel to a memorable and trying struggle in the early annals of New England, are worth rescuing from oblivion as a monument of the courage and sacrifice which have given us our proud New England heritage.

The Narraganset war, under the subtle leadership of King Philip, the ambitious and heroic sachem of Mount Hope, suddenly bursting upon the eastern colonies, in 1675, brought indescribable terror and affliction upon the infant settlements. It is impossible to understand, and much less to describe, in any adequate manner, the misfortunes which this merciless warfare visited upon the feeble settlers of the wilderness. The confederated savages, in the secret conclaves of the forests, under the inspiration of their powerful and relentless chief, had organized the bloody design to utterly extinguish the colonies, and, though defeated in their terrible purpose of extermination, they so far put their sanguinary work into execution, in the brief space of a year, as to have clothed all New England in mourning. Estimates, drawn from official records, show that no less than six hundred of the inhabitants, the flower and strength of the country, either fell in battle, or were murdered by the enemy; and that there were few families, or individuals, who had not lost some near relative in the savage strife. Twelve or thirteen towns in Massachusetts, Plymouth and Rhode Island, were utterly destroyed; others greatly damaged; and about six hundred buildings, mostly dwelling-houses, were consumed by fire. Nor do these statements furnish an adequate representation of the calamity; and Trumbull, the early and most reliable historian of the conflict, after a careful consideration of the sufferings of the colonists, affirms that about one fencible man in eleven was killed, and every eleventh family burnt out, or an eleventh part of the whole militia, and of all the buildings of the united colonies were swept away by this predatory war: the debt, depredations, sufferings and carnage being greater, in proportion to the wealth and number of the people, than in any other struggle in which the country has ever been engaged, not excepting even the terrible fratricidal strife from which we have just emerged, and in which so many of our comrades have fallen, but not, we trust, without a hope, that posterity would mark their graves, or at least, cherish their memory.

Bancroft, in his account of the "Narraganset Fort Fight," says, "But the English were not the only sufferers. In winter, it was the custom of the natives to dwell together in their wigwams; in spring, they would be dispersed through the woods. In winter, the warriors who had spread misery through the west, were sheltered among the Narragansetts; in spring, they would renew their devastations.

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