A history of the United States for schools . elusion prevailedin Massachusetts. Nearly all people at that time believed in witchcraft,and in Europe executions for that imaginary crime were frequent. In theSalem Farms, near Salem, half a dozen young girls and an Indian servantin the household of Rev. Samuel Parris went into fits, played various §§ 70, 71- OVERTHROW OF NEW FRANCE. 165 In 1693, Frontenac began to invade and lay wastethe country of the Five Nations, and by 1697, serioushe had wrought such havoc there that these ^f^^^^^haughty Iroquois sued most humbly for mercy. con
A history of the United States for schools . elusion prevailedin Massachusetts. Nearly all people at that time believed in witchcraft,and in Europe executions for that imaginary crime were frequent. In theSalem Farms, near Salem, half a dozen young girls and an Indian servantin the household of Rev. Samuel Parris went into fits, played various §§ 70, 71- OVERTHROW OF NEW FRANCE. 165 In 1693, Frontenac began to invade and lay wastethe country of the Five Nations, and by 1697, serioushe had wrought such havoc there that these ^f^^^^^haughty Iroquois sued most humbly for mercy. confederacy never recovered from the blows dealtit by Count Frontenac. 71. The Struggle Renewed in Queen Annes 1697, the war between France and England was endedby the treaty of Ryswick, and thusthe conflict knownas King WilliamsWar was stoppedin America. Butthe peace was ofshort war in Europebroke out again in1701, and blood-shed was renewedin America. AsWilliam III. diedearly in 1702, andwas succeeded byQueen Anne, this. war was known in America as Queen Annes War. Itlasted twelve years. In the course of it, the Indiansperpetrated an atrocious massacre at Deerfield, in 1704,and another at Haverhill, in 1708. In the far South, theFrench and Spaniards, who were now in alliance, sent queer pranks, and accused several persons of having bewitched started a panic which lasted through the greater part of the year1692; in the course of it, nineteen persons were hanged for witchcraft,and one old man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death under heavy weightsfor refusing to plead Guilty or Not Guilty. 166 COLONIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA. Ch. IX. from Cuba a fleet to attack Charleston ; but the gal-lant South Carolinians were victorious and drove awaythe assailants. In the North, another expedition sailedagainst Quebec, but failed like the first one. Englishtroops, however, British and colonial, conquered NovaScotia ; and when the war was ended by the treaty ofUtre
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