An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . in the year 1643, the Assembly voted that noterms of peace with them should be entertained. That unfortunatepeople, driven to despair, again entered into a general confederacy,hoping, by a sudden attack, to cut off the hated race who had seizedtheir lands. This step could not now be reproached with treachery,nor could suspicion be lulled by professions of friendship; yetthrough th
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . in the year 1643, the Assembly voted that noterms of peace with them should be entertained. That unfortunatepeople, driven to despair, again entered into a general confederacy,hoping, by a sudden attack, to cut off the hated race who had seizedtheir lands. This step could not now be reproached with treachery,nor could suspicion be lulled by professions of friendship; yetthrough their habits of deep dissimulation, they, in some degree,effected a surprise. About three hundred colonists were killed ; butas soon as the main body were aroused, the savage assailants werecompletely defeated, pursued into their own country, and Opecanca-nough, their king, taken prisoner. Though well treated, he feltindignant at the multitudes who were allowed to come into his pri-son, and satisfy their curiosity by viewing his person; assuringBerkeley, that, had fortune reversed their situation, he would notlave meanly exhibited his captive as a show. A brutal soldier pu! 228 VIRGINIA TILL THE PEACE OF CHARLBS I. an end to his life by shooting him in the back ; and the Indianswere now so far overawed, that the governor, in 1646, could imposea treaty, including an extensive cession of territory. This unpropitious affair was succeeded by a period of unusualtranquillity, during which the colony increased greatly. A writer,in 1649, estimates the population at about fifteen thousand, and statesthat there were twenty thousand head of cattle, three thousand sheep,five thousand goats, hogs and poultry innumerable, with about twohundred horses and mares of an excellent breed. Wheat was raisedfor subsistence in considerable quantities, but tobacco was the staplefor sale. The plantations reached about a hundred miles along theriver, having upon it fronts of varying extent, but each
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