. The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars. st, dimpled with shadowshere or dashed with sunlight there. There was not awhite mans cabin anywhere in sight. Buried in the depths of these forests the enemy wascoming on without fear of discovery. Just here, at Haverhill, the ridge is broken throughto admit the passage of Little Eiver, coming down outof the hills, at the east, to throw itself into the Merri-mac. This was the open postern through which thevillage was easily assailable on that side, weakly guard-ed by a garrison or two on tlie heights beyon
. The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars. st, dimpled with shadowshere or dashed with sunlight there. There was not awhite mans cabin anywhere in sight. Buried in the depths of these forests the enemy wascoming on without fear of discovery. Just here, at Haverhill, the ridge is broken throughto admit the passage of Little Eiver, coming down outof the hills, at the east, to throw itself into the Merri-mac. This was the open postern through which thevillage was easily assailable on that side, weakly guard-ed by a garrison or two on tlie heights beyond, whereThomas Dustan formerly lived. Unless this outpost16 242 THE BORDER WARS OF NEW ENGLAND [1708 gave the alarm, Haverhill lay at the mercy of the in-vaders. As to the village, it still consisted of no more thanthirty houses chiefly grouped near the foot of the ridge,where it is washed by the river, with a few more scat-tered here and there along the crest above, like watch-houses on a castle wall. In one of these ^ lived SimonWainwright, captain of the village militia. From his. 1. 111 t BITE OF WAINWRIGHT GAKKISON, HAVERHILL, MASS. Wainwrightshouse. doorstep Wainwright could look off over the denseforests stretching far and away to the east, could followwith his scrutinizing eye through thislabyrinth of aged woods the windings ofLittle Biver, from its vanishing point among the dis-tant hills to where it finally breaks through the naturalembankment on which he stood; and he could alsoplainly see if all was well with his lonely neighbors 1 The house shown in the engriiving Ls ,ite Winter Street Church. 1708] HAVERHILL SACKED . 243 over against liim on the heights beyond. And this wetake to have been his daily habit. Other garrisons lay to the north and south, that ofJonathan Emerson standing guard over the approachto the ridge from Little Eiver, those of Joseph and Na-thaniel Peaslee flanking it in the opposite simple defences, in a measure, cov- other
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