. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . ew that the Pequots would tryto persuade the Narragansetts to join them, and in wild, stormy weather he paddled his canoeacross Narragansett Bay, andwent straight to the wigwamof Canonicus. There stood thePequot messengers, and Ca-nonicus was on the point ofyielding They knew why Roger Wil-liams had come. They glaredat liim angrily, and would havekilled him if they had , too, would havekilled any other man who hadcome so boldly into his wig-coNNECTicuT VALLEY SETTLEMENTS waui; but hc was vcry fond ofRoger Wilham
. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . ew that the Pequots would tryto persuade the Narragansetts to join them, and in wild, stormy weather he paddled his canoeacross Narragansett Bay, andwent straight to the wigwamof Canonicus. There stood thePequot messengers, and Ca-nonicus was on the point ofyielding They knew why Roger Wil-liams had come. They glaredat liim angrily, and would havekilled him if they had , too, would havekilled any other man who hadcome so boldly into his wig-coNNECTicuT VALLEY SETTLEMENTS waui; but hc was vcry fond ofRoger Wilhams, and he listened closely to what he had to was several days before the chief would decide. Roger Wil-liams talked, and the Pequots talked. When they lay down tosleep at night, the white man hardly expected to be alive in themorning. At last Canonicus told the Pequots that he would notunite with them. The Pequots decided to make war without help, and all throughthe winter they put to death every colonist that they could seize. In the wig-wam of Ca-nonicus. CONNECTICUT 81 New Haven Then Connecticut appealed to Massachusetts and Plymouth for The Pequothelp. Near where Stonmgton, Connecticut, now stands was a ^^Pequot village. Around it was a stout palisade, or fence of tree trunks set close together in the jrt ^ ground. There MATCHLOCK AND REST ^^^^.g ^^^ ^^^ openings, and those were very narrow. The colonists closedthem and threw lighted torches over the paUsades. The wig-wams blazed, and out of seven hundred Pequots only five nearly forty years no Indians dared to attack the English. One month after this terrible fight, New Haven was founded,in 1638. Hartford had been settled by men who thought the Founding ofBostonians were too strict. New Haven was settled by a com-pany from England who feared that Boston was not strict company was made up chiefly of wealthy merchants; andjust as the Reverend Thomas Hooker had led his church to Hart-ford, so th
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