. New England; a human interest geographical reader. ir fire andsurrounded and took into custody the entire companywithout bloodshed. Then two hundred of the latelyhostile Indians were selected from the rest and car-ried off to Boston. Several of them were executedthere, and the others were sold into slavery. The local Indians never forgave this years passed, and then they allied themselveswith a neighboring tribe for revenge. In the latterpart of June, 1688, many of them resorted to Doverostensibly to trade. Some of the villagers expressedto Waldron fears of an outbreak, but
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. ir fire andsurrounded and took into custody the entire companywithout bloodshed. Then two hundred of the latelyhostile Indians were selected from the rest and car-ried off to Boston. Several of them were executedthere, and the others were sold into slavery. The local Indians never forgave this years passed, and then they allied themselveswith a neighboring tribe for revenge. In the latterpart of June, 1688, many of them resorted to Doverostensibly to trade. Some of the villagers expressedto Waldron fears of an outbreak, but he bade them goand plant their pumpkins, and leave him to deal withthe Indians. There were five garrison houses in the village Early New Hampshire 251 which had grown up near Major Waldrons grist andsaw mill at the Cocheco Falls. Each was surroundedwith timber walls, the gates of which as well as thehouse doors were secured with bolts and bars. Thefamilies in the unprotected houses retired to thesegarrison houses at night, but no watch was kept. It. An old Dover garrison house that the Indians failed to destroy when they burned many neighboring buildings in 1688 was arranged by the Indians that on the evening of thetwenty-seventh of the month two squaws should ap-ply at each of the garrison houses for lodging. Suchrequests were not unusual, and only at one of thefortified dwellings was admittance refused. When every one had gone to bed and all was quiet,the squaw visitors opened the doors and the gates,and in rushed the Indian warriors who were waiting 252 New England outside. Major Waldron was awakened by the noise,and he hastily pulled on his trousers and seized hissword. Though eighty years of age he met the Indiansat the door of his room, and put them to flight, but ashe was going back to get other weapons, one of thesavages stole up behind him and stunned him with theblow of a tomahawk. Then they seized him, draggedhim into his dining-room, put his arm-chair on thelong tab
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