. A brief history of the United States . was a famous league in colonial times. The object wasa common protection against the Indians and the encroach-ments of the Dutch and French settlers. King Philips War.—During the life of Massasoit, Ply-mouth enjoyed peace with the Indians, as did Jamestownduring that of Powhatan. After Massasoits death, his son,Philip, brooded with a jealous eye over the encroachments ofthe whites. With profound sagacity, he planned a confed-eration of the Indian tribes against the intruders. The firstblow fell on the people of Swansea as they were quietly goin
. A brief history of the United States . was a famous league in colonial times. The object wasa common protection against the Indians and the encroach-ments of the Dutch and French settlers. King Philips War.—During the life of Massasoit, Ply-mouth enjoyed peace with the Indians, as did Jamestownduring that of Powhatan. After Massasoits death, his son,Philip, brooded with a jealous eye over the encroachments ofthe whites. With profound sagacity, he planned a confed-eration of the Indian tribes against the intruders. The firstblow fell on the people of Swansea as they were quietly goinghome from church on Sunday (July 14, 1675). The settlersflew to arms, but Philip escaped, and soon excited the savagesto fall upon the settlements high up the Connecticut valley. * * At Hadley the Indians surprised the people on Fast day, Jnne 13,1676. Seizingtheir muskets at the sound of the savage war-whoop, the men rushed out of themeeting-house to fall into line. But the foe was on every side. Confused and be- 58 EPOCH II, [1675-. A FOKTlFIliD HOUSE. The colonists fortified their houses with palisades, carriedtheir arms with them into the fields when at work, andstacked them at the door when at church. The Narraganset Indians favored Philip,and seemed on the pointof joining his had gathered theirwinters provisions, andfortified themselves inthe midst of an almostinaccessible swamp. Fif-teen hundred of thecolonists accordingly at-tacked them in this stronghold. The Indian wigwamsand stores were burned, and one thousand warriors the spring the war broke out anew along a frontier ofthree hundred miles, and to within twenty miles of fighting in the open field, but by ambuscadeand skulking, the Indians kept the whole country in to desperation by their atrocities, the settlers hunteddown the savages like wild beasts. Philip was chased fromone hiding-place to another. His family being captured atlast, he fled, broken-hearte
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