The beginner's American history . amed John Eliot,had persuaded some of the red men near Boston to giveup their religion, and to try to live like the white were called Praying Indians. One of themwho knew King Philip well told the settlers that Philipswarriors were grinding their hatchets sharp for war. Soonafter, this Praying Indian was found murdered. Thewhite people accused three of Philips men of having killedhim. They were tried, found guilty, and hanged. 90. Beginnings of the war at Swansea; ^ burning of Brook-field. —Then Philips warriors began the war in the summer of 1675
The beginner's American history . amed John Eliot,had persuaded some of the red men near Boston to giveup their religion, and to try to live like the white were called Praying Indians. One of themwho knew King Philip well told the settlers that Philipswarriors were grinding their hatchets sharp for war. Soonafter, this Praying Indian was found murdered. Thewhite people accused three of Philips men of having killedhim. They were tried, found guilty, and hanged. 90. Beginnings of the war at Swansea; ^ burning of Brook-field. —Then Philips warriors began the war in the summer of 1675. Some whitesettlers were going homefrom church in the townof Swansea, Massachu-setts ; they had been topray that there mightbe no fighting. As theywalked along, talkingtogether, two guns werefired out of the of the white men^^^A^mm ^^^^^^^ ^ fell dead in the road, and another was badly shots were fired by Indians. This was the way theyalways fought when they could. They were not cowards, 1 Swansea (Swonze).. KING PHILIP. 63 but they did not come out boldly, but would fire frombehind trees and rocks. Often a white man would bekilled without even seeing who shot him. At first the fighting was mainly in those villages ofPlymouth Colony which were nearest Narragansett Bay ;then it spread to the valley of the Connecticut Riverand the neighborhood. Deerfield, Springfield, Brookfield,^Groton,^ and many other places in Massachusetts wereattacked. The Indians would creep up stealthily in thenight, burn the houses, carry off the women and childrenprisoners if they could,kill the rest of the in-habitants, take theirscalps home and hangthem up in their wig-wams. At Brookfield the set-tlers left their houses,and gathered in onestrong house for de-fence. The Indiansburned all the housesbut that one, and didtheir best to burn that,too. They dipped rags in brimstone, such as we makematches of, fastened them to the points of their arrows,set fire to them, and then shot th
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