. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... order militia wereset to watch the line of the river, and in 1675a body of them, under Colonel John Wash-ington, crossed over into Maryland to helpthe people of that colony. This JohnWashington had emigrated from the northof England about eighteen years before, andhad settled in Westmoreland County. Hebecame the great-grandfather of GeorgeWashington. The war was conducted withgreat fury on both sides. Six of the chiefsof the Susquehannah tribe at length came
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... order militia wereset to watch the line of the river, and in 1675a body of them, under Colonel John Wash-ington, crossed over into Maryland to helpthe people of that colony. This JohnWashington had emigrated from the northof England about eighteen years before, andhad settled in Westmoreland County. Hebecame the great-grandfather of GeorgeWashington. The war was conducted withgreat fury on both sides. Six of the chiefsof the Susquehannah tribe at length cameinto the camp of the Virginians to treat forpeace, and were treacherously murdered. This barbarous act aroused the indignationof Governor Berkeley. If they had killedmy father and my mother, and all myfriends, said he, yet if they had come totreat of peace, they ought to have gone inpeace. The massacre was bloodily avengedby the Indians, The Suscuehannahs im-mediately crossed the Potomac and waged arelentless warfare along the borders of Vir-ginia until they had slain ten whites for eachone of their ghiefs, a s^crifige recjuire^ qi. 104 SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. them by the customs of their tribe, in ordeithat the spirits of their braves might rest inpeace. The people appealed to the governorfor protection, but Berkeley refused to grantthem aid. It is said that he was too deeplyinterested in the fur trade to be willing tooffend the Indians by aiding his colonists then demanded permission todefend themselves, to invade the Indiancountry, and drive the savages farther intothe interior. This was also refused, andduring all this time the frontier was sufferingfearfully from the outrages of Berkeleys In-dian friends. A Patriotic Leader. At last the patience of the people was ex-hausted. A leader was at hand in the personof Nathaniel Bacon. He was a youngplanter of the county of Henrico, a native ofEngland, and a lawyer by profession. Hewas ardent in temper, eloquent and per-
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