. The history of Warwick, Rhode Island: from its settlement in 1642 to the present time : including accounts of the early settlement and development of its several villages, sketches of the origin and progress of the different churches of the town, &c., &c. . ough afterward there were several skirmishes, andmany towns and villages were burned. On the 27th of December, Capt. Prentice was sentinto this town, where he burnt nearly a hundred ofPomhams wigwams, but the Indians had joined his fortunes with the other tribes, andwas afterward killed near Derlham, Massachusetts, in anen
. The history of Warwick, Rhode Island: from its settlement in 1642 to the present time : including accounts of the early settlement and development of its several villages, sketches of the origin and progress of the different churches of the town, &c., &c. . ough afterward there were several skirmishes, andmany towns and villages were burned. On the 27th of December, Capt. Prentice was sentinto this town, where he burnt nearly a hundred ofPomhams wigwams, but the Indians had joined his fortunes with the other tribes, andwas afterward killed near Derlham, Massachusetts, in anengagement.! At about the same time one of his sonswas also taken prisoner, who, according to Hubbard,would have received some consideration from his captorson account of his prepossessing countenance, had he notbelonged to so bloody and barbarous an Indian as hisfather was. The injury inflicted upon the Indians by the destruc-tion of their wigwams was fully avenged on the 17th ofthe following March, when a party of the natives fellupon the town and utterly destroyed it. Governor * Hutchinson, i, 301. t Judge Potter. 76 HISTOEY OF WARWICK. [1663-67. Arnold says the town was utterly destroyed, exceptone house built of stone, which could not be V c3 o » a> mil* III s S |IBB g 3 -1 S3 ,-. « JS S 1 1 M 111 nftv H r* § ^ be The Old Stone Castle, a cut of which is given on thispage, is from a pencil sketch, Tuade under the direction of 1663-67.] DEATH OF JOHN WICKES. 77 persons who had intimate personal recollections of it, and pro-nounced by them to be a correct representation of the ancientstructure. John Smith was a stone mason by trade, which ac-counts, in part, for the material of his domicil. He wasPresident of the Colony at the time his house was being 1652, he was chosen President of Providence and Warwick,the other two towns, Newport and Portsmouth, having with-drawn from the compact and set up for themselves. He diedin the early part of the year 166
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