. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... accustomed homes, and menacedwith total destruction by the superior , though outwardly friendlyto the colonists, now secretly resolved upontheir destruction, and sought to accomplishthis by treachery. There were about five thousand Indians,of whom fifteen hundred were warriors,within sixty miles of Jamestown, and thewhites in the same region numbered in allabout four thousand. These were scatteredin fancied safety along both sides of theJa
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... accustomed homes, and menacedwith total destruction by the superior , though outwardly friendlyto the colonists, now secretly resolved upontheir destruction, and sought to accomplishthis by treachery. There were about five thousand Indians,of whom fifteen hundred were warriors,within sixty miles of Jamestown, and thewhites in the same region numbered in allabout four thousand. These were scatteredin fancied safety along both sides of theJames and for some distance into the plot was organized by the Indian leaderfor the extermination of every settler iuthe colony. At noon on a designated dayevery settlement was to be surprised andall the inhabitants murdered. The savagesin the meantime kept up their pretence 01friendship. Opechancanough declared withfervor, Sooner shall the sky fall than myfriendship for the English should cease. Sounsuspicious were the English that to thftvery last moment they received the savagesamongst them without fear of harm, and ift. MASSACRE OF SETTLERS BY INDIANS. PROGRESS OF THE VIRGINIA COLONY. 91 jnany places the latter were then in the housesof the people they meant to destroy. On the twenty-second of March, 1622, agenei al attack was made by the savages uponall the settlements of the colony. On theprevious night the plot had been revealed toa converted Indian named Chauco, who atonce hastened to Jamestown and gave warn-ing of the danger. The alarm spread rapidlyto the nearest settlements, but those at a dis-tance could not be reached in time to averttheir fate. Those settlements which hadbeen warned were able to offer a successfulresistance to their assailants, and some ofthose which were surprised beat off theIndians ; but the number of victims, menwomen and children, who fell this dayamounted to three hundred and these were slain, and their fate wouldhav
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