. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. ental power. It was the fateof his son to destroy that good will and make his people, as arace in New England, first, to be feared and then to be ignoredand forgotten. Two centuries were to pass before savagewarfare was to cease beyond the Hudson and on the slopes ofof the Rockies, and the last Indian warrior engaged in con-flict with the American People, Geronimo, of the dreadfultribe of Apaches, has died the week that this work goes to press ;*
. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. ental power. It was the fateof his son to destroy that good will and make his people, as arace in New England, first, to be feared and then to be ignoredand forgotten. Two centuries were to pass before savagewarfare was to cease beyond the Hudson and on the slopes ofof the Rockies, and the last Indian warrior engaged in con-flict with the American People, Geronimo, of the dreadfultribe of Apaches, has died the week that this work goes to press ;*but for New England its Indians were soon to be as if theyhad never been. Alas for them!—their day is oer, Their fires are out from hill and shore; No more for them the wild deer bounds; The plough is on their hunting-grounds; The pale mans axe rings through their woods; The pale mans sail skims oer their floods;Their pleasant springs are dry; Their children,—look! by power oppressed, Beyond the mountains of the west Their children go—to diel— Sprague. *Edition of 1911 CHAPTER VI. SETTLEMENT OF CHICOPEE AND OTHER Chicopee Falls in 1S3S. SPRINGFIELD had as yet but a very small population;all told there could not have been more than a fewhundred people. But the Springfield of that time, thetime of King Philips war, and for many years afterwards,occupies a large place on the map. The Indians having gone,there were none to dispute the English ownership, except thesettlements made independent of Springfield and there werenone of these in Massachusetts, except Westfield, nearer thanHadley and Northampton. Enfield and Suffield had once beenpractically a part of Springfield but it was finally decided that 88 HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD they lay beyond the Massachusetts line. Although some wentfrom Springfield to help settle Westfield, this town wantedWestfield to be independent. Some went over the river toestablish their homes even before the war, like Lieute
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