A History of the Indian Wars With the First Settlers of the United States to the Commencement of the Late War; Together With an Appendix, Not Before ... of the Battles Fought by Gen. Andrew Jackson

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1828. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. Connecticut settled. Constitution adopted. Rev. Mr. Hooker. Indian tribe. Pequoits. Their depredations and massacres. Troops raised. Mrs. Anne Hutchinson. Eloquent speech of a minister at Hartford to the soldiers. Indian mode of torture. Narragansets join the English. Battle with the Pequoits. Its result. The English colony, greatly increased in courage and wealth, and still more in numbers, now began to think of more distant settlements. As early as 1634, Connecticut had begun to be settled. In 1635, the Rev. Mr. Hooker, inferior to none of the clergy, except the Rev. Mr. Cotton of Boston, with a part of his congregation, 100 in number, removed from Newton near Boston, and settled in Hartford, on Connecticut river. Mrs. Hooker was carried in a litter. They drove with them 160 head of cattle, which mostly perished for want of fodder during the next winter. They were 14 days on the journey through the wilderness, a distance of nearly 100 miles, which is now passed by the stage in a day. The river they found frozen over by the 15th of November. In addition to the loss of cattle to the amount of 8000 dollars in value, during the first winter, the people themselves suffered greatly by famine. Not long after, the Rev. Mr. Davenport settled at New-Haven. The first public worship attended was on the 18th of April, 1638, beneath a large oak, when Mr. Davenport preached on ' the temptations of the wilderness." One of the Indian tribes, of which Wahquimicut was grand sachem, had invited the English to go there, influenced by the expectation that they would afford him aid in defending himself against the neighboring tribes, with whom he had not the best understanding. In addition to this, the English had made a purchase as well of the Indians, as of the proprie...