Our first century . alidity of the Dutch title thus obtained from the Pe^quots. They induced the Indians whom the Pequots haddriven away to come back again and they supported themin their resumed possession of the lands by building, andarming, and manning a fort for their protection. There-upon the Pequots made war upon the English. TheEnglish accepted the challenge thus given and madewar in return with the result that the Pequots wereexterminated. This was the age of settlement. It must be borne inmind that as there were no railroads, no telegraphs, nomails, no country roads even, and no brid
Our first century . alidity of the Dutch title thus obtained from the Pe^quots. They induced the Indians whom the Pequots haddriven away to come back again and they supported themin their resumed possession of the lands by building, andarming, and manning a fort for their protection. There-upon the Pequots made war upon the English. TheEnglish accepted the challenge thus given and madewar in return with the result that the Pequots wereexterminated. This was the age of settlement. It must be borne inmind that as there were no railroads, no telegraphs, nomails, no country roads even, and no bridges overstreams, the people who had settled in different parts ofAmerica were well-nigh as remote from each other ineffect as if they had lived upon different continents. Thesettlements in Massachusetts were closely allied to eachother and in close communication with their offshootcolonies in Connecticut. But the Dutch in New Am-sterdam were foreign ^*«i^5^^^g^5!?e^^ The Virgin- /^ ....^— :^^ 98 OUR FIRST CENTURY. Settlements on the coast of North America in the middle of the 17th century. NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERATION 99 ians were so far away and so inaccessible under the con-ditions of that time that very nearly nothing was knownin the northern colonies of what might be happeningdown South and equally little was known down Southof what was happening in New England. It is necessaryto bear these facts in mind if we would understand theconditions of that time. And these facts were important in other ways. Thepeculiar isolation of the several colonies prompted thepeople of each of them to develop their own institutionseach independently of all the others. There was only one thing which they possessed incommon and that was a jealousy of their rights as Eng-Hshmen. However conditions might differ in the sev-eral colonies and however mens views might vary, therewas common to all of them a jealous insistence uponthe fact that they were Englishmen entitled to governthemselves. Upon tha
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